The Dublin-based firm has received support from the likes of Enda Kenny, the former Taoiseach

The company aims to produce forests of ‘trees’ that would be many times more efficient at removing CO2 than living trees

Carbon Collect makes devices which absorb more than 1,000 times more C02 than real trees

Carbon Collect, whose ideas are based on proposals by German physicist Klaus Lackner, want to install fields of 10-metre-high ‘trees’ to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere