As revealed on April 24, 2024, Spiritus has been named as one of the Top 100 most promising carbon removal innovators by XPRIZE.
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Sponsored by the Musk Foundation, the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition launched in 2021 as a way to recognize and catalyze new solutions for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at scale. More than 1,300 teams from 88 countries have joined the competition over its first four years.
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The Top 100 list is divided into 25 teams each in four categories that represent distinct and equally important CDR pathways: Air, Ocean, Land and Rocks. Spiritus’ selection after several years and multiple rounds of judging confirms its status as one of the top 25 Air CDR innovators in the world.
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XPRIZE will choose 20 Finalists from the Top 100 to demonstrate their ability to remove 1,000 tons of CO₂ from the air or oceans over the final year of the Carbon Removal competition, with the Grand Prize winner receiving $50M in April 2025. To learn more about all of the teams joining Spiritus on the Top 100 list, please visit the official XPRIZE site.