The new climate tech company Spiritus announced that the company is committed to removing the carbon emissions from Taylor Swift’s private jet flight from her concert in Japan to the Superbowl in Las Vegas, which is expected to cover a distance of 5,500 miles and produce an estimated 40 tons of carbon emissions.
“Today, everyone leaves a carbon footprint,” says Charles Cadieu, Spiritus co-founder and CEO. “But carbon removal gives us all a chance to reverse the impact on the environment. Spiritus is committed to providing innovative carbon removal solutions to ensure a sustainable future and stewardship of our environment for the fans of today and the fans of tomorrow yet to be born.”
The estimated cost to offset approximately 40 metric tons of carbon emissions from the one-way flight using current technologies is $28,000, based on a price of $700 per ton of removed CO2
Spiritus mission is to bring the cost of carbon removal to below $100 per ton. The company says that its Direct Air Capture technology in the future could decrease the total cost of removing a flight’s carbon emissions to around $4,000.