Former directors of Carbon Collect in legal battle for control of company

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

Carbon Collect ‘tree’: the company aims to build a ‘forest’ to draw CO2 out of the air, and has raised more than €10 million in funding to date

Former directors of Carbon Collect have begun a legal battle for control of the company that aims to mass-produce “mechanical trees” which are “a thousand times” more efficient than actual trees at removing CO2 from the air.

Carbon Collect was co-founded by John McKeon, an Irish oil industry executive, and Pól Ó Móráin, an Irish entrepreneur, in 2018. To date, it has raised more than €10 million from a number of investors.

The company, on ...