The past year brought an avalanche of announcements in carbon removal, including billions of dollars of new federal funding, major investments by some of the world’s biggest companies and the emergence of a slew of exciting new startups. To help make sense of this game-changing 12 months, we’ve asked some of the field’s leading experts to create the essential guide to exactly what happened and why it matters. And when that whirlwind tour is over, it’ll be up to you to pose your questions directly to our experts.

By 2030, the cost of offsetting a ton of carbon could rise fivefold, according to a study released by BloombergNEF earlier this year. Yet in that very same report, the authors looked at another scenario and predicted a hundred-fold increase.

With variability on that scale, how can buyers plan for the future? There’s no single answer, but a handful of companies are already enacting long-term plans for navigating carbon markets. You’ll get a deep dive into the plans of two of those companies and learn how you can use a long-term approach to hedge against price volatility, secure the highest-quality credits and spur innovation in nascent but powerful carbon solutions.

A rapid-fire tour of emerging solutions that leverage the power of nature to draw down carbon.

The market for carbon credits is diversifying at a dizzying pace, in no small part to a proliferation of innovation and potentially impactful nature-based solutions. Entrepreneurs are developing credits based on everything from carbonate compounds in the ocean and biochar in soils to large-scale restoration of degraded landscapes. We’ve invited leaders from five of the most exciting new approaches to deliver lightning talks, after which you’ll have the opportunity to connect with each of the founders and learn about how you can get involved in their work.

Investing in value-chain communities across a jurisdiction can produce multiple benefits.

Carbon credits can be a powerful tool for reducing emissions, but the approach has inherent limitations. Many credits focus solely on carbon, when a more holistic strategy would consider benefits to local communities and ecosystems. Investing in credits that originate outside of an organization’s value chain can also miss opportunities to tackle what’s often the most challenging component of a company’s carbon footprint: Scope 3 emissions.

This session will explore landscape-level investing, an innovative alternative to conventional carbon markets. Pioneers of the approach will explain how companies can fund projects within their supplysheds that deliver broad-ranging goals — from biodiversity and food security to improved health and gender equality — as well as reductions in Scope 3 emissions.

More and more startups are developing technologies for storing atmospheric carbon in the world’s oceans.

Over the past few years, the notion that we could develop ocean-based technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere has gone from an intriguing idea to a hotbed of academic and commercial activity. We’ve brought together experts who have surveyed the potential mechanisms for large-scale drawdown in the oceans, as well as the innovators behind some of the most exciting solutions. Find out how the field is likely to evolve in coming years and the opportunities for partnering with the pioneers who are driving this progress.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is about to mandate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions. Are you ready?

Experts agree that the SEC’s plan is a critical component of climate strategy, but the consensus is less clear on exactly how the process should work. Which companies have to disclose, for example? Should all categories of Scope 3 emissions be included, from the production of raw materials right through to product use? And who, if anybody, should audit these disclosures?

As the SEC consultation moves toward a conclusion, experts who have been tracking the process will share their thinking on the likely shape of the final rule and the implications for your company.