Selling Clean Air: The Market for Carbon Dioxide Removal
A Stanford Climate Week panel on CDR
The latest IPCC reports conclude that we cannot reach Net Zero, and reverse the rise of atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and their associated climate impacts, without scaling up negative emissions technologies (NETs) to 5-10 GtC/year. But the nascent Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) ecosystem requires large capital commitments from investors, and visionary customers ready to pre-purchase years ahead of capacity.
Come meet the industry leaders working at the frontlines of the market for removals, and learn what it will take to build and grow the CDR industry to the gigaton scale and beyond!
At the frontlines of carbon removal
In a changing environment with uncertain long term policy incentives, what does it take to sell removals today?
What does it take for visionary customer to align their organizations and purchase removals?
What strategies do new entrants embrace to bring their technologies to market and scale the business of carbon removals?
What forces are driving the CDR market, and where is it headed?
Speakers & Agenda
5:00-6:00pm Panel & Q&A
Peter Minor, CEO and Co-Founder, Absolute Climate
Sebastien Lerminet, Head of Partnerships, Climeworks
Ted Christie-Miller, Co-Founder of Residual
Yee Lee, Chief Growth Officer & VP Capital Markets, Terraformation
Moderated by Romain Lacombe, Stanford Chemical Engineering, and Venture Partner, HCVC.
6:00-6:30pm Lightning talks: recent research by Stanford graduate students.
Grace Callander, PhD student in Chemical Engineering, on dilute microbial carbon dioxide conversion
Peng Zhu, post-doctoral researcher in the Jaramillo Lab and Stanford Accelerator Fellow, on ocean alkalinity enhancement for marine CDR
Bharti Singhla, MBA/MS student in the E-IPER program, on policy change for carbon black emissions avoidance
Valeria Gracia Olvera, PhD student in Health Policy, on the health benefits of climate mitigation
6:30-7:00pm Networking reception with speakers.
This event is sponsored by HCVC, an early-stage deeptech venture fund backing founders on a mission to industrialize scientific and technological progress.