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Carbon capture and sequestration

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
9:00am to 12:00pm
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How to Buy High Quality Carbon Removal Credits

Tutorial
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Net Zero Strategies

Speakers

  • Danny Cullenward
  • Freya Chay
  • Sadie Frank
  • Jeremy Freeman

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3:30pm to 4:30pm
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The State of Carbon Removal

Case Study
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbontech: fuels and materials
  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets

Speakers

  • Julio Friedmann
  • Adrian Corless
  • Savita Bowman
  • Peter Minor

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
9:00am to 10:00am
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Building a Long-Term Plan for Buying Carbon Credits

Case Study
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets
  • Nature-based solutions

Speakers

  • Patrick Flynn
  • Rafael Broze
  • Stephanie Harris

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How the First Movers Coalition Raises the Bar for Corporate Action on Next-Gen Climate Tech

Case Study
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Get the inside scoop on how some of the world’s largest companies are tackling hard-to-abate emissions.

Announced just under a year ago, the First Movers Coalition is an ambitious cross-sector effort to bring down emissions from seven sectors where decarbonization is particularly challenging: aluminum, aviation, chemicals, concrete, shipping, steel and trucking. In parallel, coalition members are also investing hundreds of millions in emerging carbon removal technologies.

Come learn about the range of commitments made by coalition members, including pledges to use low-carbon fuels in shipping networks, purchases of specific quantities of near-zero emissions steel and contracts for tens of thousands of tons of carbon removals.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration

Speakers

  • Elizabeth Sturcken
  • Marsden Hanna
  • Scott Tew
  • Kevin Self

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2:45pm to 3:45pm
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Sponsored: Carbon Lockdown: Key Strategies for Achieving Durable Carbon Storage at Scale

Breakout
Room LL21E, San Jose Convention Center

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.

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

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration

Speakers

  • Greeshma Gadikota
  • Julio Friedmann
  • Robert Niven
  • Brennan Spellacy

Sponsors

CarbonCure

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4:15pm to 5:15pm
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How the First Mover Companies are Using Purchasing Commitments to Scale Carbon Removal

Partner Session
San Jose Ballroom Salon I, Marriott

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.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets

Speakers

  • Julio Friedmann
  • Nan Ransohoff
  • Christiaan Gevers Daynoot

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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
9:00am to 10:00am
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Why the Potential for Ocean Carbon Removal is Clearer than Ever

Panel
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets

Speakers

  • Frances Wang
  • David Koweek
  • Jessica Cross
  • Ben Tarbell

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Plan to Kick Start the Market for Carbon Removals

Panel
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets

Speakers

  • Stacy Kauk
  • Sophie Purdom
  • Nan Ransohoff

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3:00pm to 4:00pm
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The U.S. is Gearing Up to Build the World’s Biggest Direct Air Capture Facilities

Panel
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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.

Tracks

  • Carbontech: fuels and materials
  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Carbon markets

Speakers

  • Deepika Nagabhushan
  • Clea Kolster
  • Anthony Cottone
  • Celina Scott-Buechler

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