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.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will not be possible without all but halting tropical deforestation by 2030. The LEAF Coalition is the world’s largest public-private collaboration dedicated to making this happen. Launched in 2021, it has already mobilized over $1 billion from corporations and governments to protect tropical forests. This panel, chaired by GreenBiz Group co-founder Joel Makower and featuring LEAF corporations and sovereign donors will look at how joining LEAF can help corporations take a high-ambition pathway to net zero, while supporting forest preservation and sustainable development for forest nations.

This session is sponsored by LEAF Coalition. Sponsored breakouts are sponsor-created and hosted breakouts, created independently by the sponsor without input from GreenBiz. Please note that attendee contact information will be shared with the sponsoring company.

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.

Congress has made an unprecedented investment in direct air capture. What happens next?

Late last year, a rare bipartisan moment took place in climate policy: Democrats and Republicans agreed to spend $3.5 billion on four direct air capture (DAC) hubs, each capable of capturing at least a million tons of carbon dioxide annually. The investment is a game-changer given that the biggest existing DAC facility only draws down a few thousands of tons every year.

Leaders from the DAC industry will share insights into how they expect to see the money being used and what the impact will be. Come to learn which companies are likely to build the new facilities, how can other organizations get involved and what needs to be done to ensure that equity issues are built into the process.