Carbon Clean ranked 8th globally in TIME World’s Top GreenTech Companies 2026  

Carbon Clean is the highest-ranked UK company in this year’s list for the second consecutive year, reinforcing its position as a leading climate technology innovator on the global stage.

The company’s inclusion in the top 10 reflects its continued focus on enabling carbon capture solutions for hard-to-abate industries. Over the past year, Carbon Clean has continued to advance its modular CycloneCC™ technology through industrial demonstrations with pioneering customers, generating the operational data and insights needed to support wider commercial adoption.

Aniruddha Sharma, Chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, said: 

“Being recognised among the world’s top GreenTech companies reflects the progress we are making in commercialising scalable carbon capture solutions. Retaining our position as the highest-ranked UK company for the second year running highlights both the strength of our technology and the growing demand for practical decarbonisation solutions.

“As industries accelerate efforts to reduce emissions, our focus remains on delivering carbon capture technology that can be deployed quickly, efficiently and at commercial scale. This recognition reflects the exceptional work of our team and the impact we are making alongside our customers and partners worldwide.” 

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About Carbon Clean

Carbon Clean is a UK-based carbon capture company developing point-source, post-combustion technologies for industrial emitters. With more than 15 years of experience, the company has designed, delivered and operated carbon capture systems across hard-to-abate sectors including cement, steel, chemicals, and power generation.

Carbon Clean’s technology portfolio includes more than 50 project references worldwide and is supported by an intellectual property base of 126 active patent assets across 30 countries. The company has also developed CycloneCC, a modular carbon capture technology designed to simplify and accelerate industrial deployment. Its technologies have been deployed across a wide range of flue gas compositions and operating conditions, generating operational data that supports ongoing optimisation and scale-up.

To date, Carbon Clean’s technologies have captured more than 3 million tonnes of CO₂ globally. The company has worked with organisations including ADNOC, Aramco, NTPC Limited, Taiheiyo Cement, and Tata Steel, supporting deployment across diverse industrial applications.

Carbon Clean is focused on making carbon capture scalable, cost-effective, and accessible, supporting the transition to lower-carbon industry.

For further information: www.carbonclean.com 

About the World’s Top Greentech Companies Ranking

The World’s Top Greentech Companies 2026 ranking is compiled by Statista in partnership with TIME. It is based on a 
rigorous and transparent methodology that evaluates companies worldwide on their environmental impact, innovation, 
and financial performance.

The assessment combines multiple data sources and analytical models to identify companies that are making significant 
contributions to sustainability and the development of green.