Do you have a budget for carbon removal? We have experts on hand to help you figure out how to spend it.

There are good reasons why carbon removal credits are a small but fast-growing component of carbon markets. For one thing, the IPCC has said that we can’t limit global warming to 1.5C without scaling removal technologies. Some removal projects also offer a higher likelihood of climate impact than other carbon credits.

Yet the nascent market for removals can be difficult for even experts to navigate. In this interactive tutorial, the team from CarbonPlan will walk you through the science behind carbon removal, the types of credits available today and the questions you need to ask to ensure that your spending delivers maximum climate benefits.

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.

As innovators continue to develop and deploy techniques for removing atmospheric CO2, we must also ensure this captured CO2 gets safely and permanently stored. Two leading solutions for durable, global-scale carbon storage include carbon mineralization in concrete and geologic storage. Mineralization in concrete offers an immediate opportunity to permanently remove and store CO2 in our built environment, and gigaton-scale geologic storage opportunities exist around the world.

This panel will explore the co-benefits and challenges associated with existing carbon storage solutions, as well as opportunities to catalyze these solutions through policy and the voluntary carbon market.

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Carbon removal is a key focus for the First Movers Coalition, a global initiative harnessing the purchasing power of companies to decarbonize seven hard-to-abate industrial sectors. With global recognition that carbon removal is essential to meeting 1.5 degrees, it is imperative that companies set ambitious commitments to purchase durable and scalable carbon removal solutions. Join this session to hear how coalition partners are using these commitments to accelerate the development of carbon removal technologies to commercial scale by 2030 — and learn how your company can join them.

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.

Can a strategy borrowed from vaccine development drive down the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

Even in a year of big announcements in carbon removal, the April launch of Frontier stood out. Backed by investments from Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey, the fund has $925 million at its discretion to pay startups to remove and sequester atmospheric carbon. The fund’s theory of change, known as an “advanced market commitment,” borrows from a successful philanthropic effort to spur the development of vaccines by guaranteeing a future market for the product. In this case, Frontier hopes to trigger innovation, increase scale and drive down costs in the nascent carbon removals market by promising to contract with startups with exciting removal technologies.

Key players behind the initiative will describe the fund’s strategy, what they’re looking for in a successful technology and explain how both startups and financial backers can get involved.

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.