

This is CDR: Octavia Carbon’s Project Hummingbird – Pioneering Direct Air Capture in Africa.
Join us for a conversation with Duncan Kariuki, Co-founder & CPO, and Martin Freimüller, Co-founder & CEO of Octavia Carbon, Africa’s first and only Direct Air Capture (DAC) company, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Octavia Carbon is making history by building Project Hummingbird, the first commercial DAC facility in the Global South, located in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. The company is scaling cutting-edge carbon removal technology while forging a community-first approach to deployment, ensuring that local stakeholders play a key role in shaping the future of DAC in the region.
In this session, our guests will share:
🔹 The latest updates on Project Hummingbird – milestones, challenges, and what’s ahead
🔹 How Octavia Carbon is scaling DAC in Kenya with $5M in recent seed funding
🔹 Their novel approach to community engagement and responsible climate action in the Global South
Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from the pioneers of DAC in Africa and learn how carbon removal innovation is taking root in new regions.