Christoph Gebald of Climeworks is one of the thought leaders and innovators that UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries programme. Climeworks’ mission is to capture and permanently remove carbon dioxide from the air using a technology called “direct air capture”. Founded by Gebald and his engineering partner Jan Wurzbacher, the company strives to inspire one billion people to act now, in order to remove both historic and residual CO2 emissions and limit global warming.