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Pat Adams is the Senior Writer at Supercritical, where he leads communications focused on scaling high-quality carbon removal. He translates complex topics such as delivery risk, CDR procurement, and market analysis into clear, actionable insights for buyers. Before joining Supercritical, Pat spent over a decade in government and nonprofit advocacy, specializing in mission-driven communications across climate and public policy. Originally from the U.S., he spent three years in Mexico City and is now based in London.
Pat Adams
Senior Writer
Supercritical
Dr Peter Mayer
Partner
SDFM
Peter was born and raised in Germany. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg where he earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (Dr. iur. which is comparable to a Ph.D. degree in law) in 2000. Peter focuses on advising climate-tech companies, project developers, investors, and corporate buyers on sophisticated climate transactions and carbon dioxide removal projects. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating carbon credit pre-purchase and offtake agreements, as well as structuring project finance arrangements for CDR projects.
George Jones is the Director of Operations & Supply at Supercritical, leading efforts to build a high-integrity carbon removal marketplace. He works closely with carbon removal suppliers to identify, vet, and scale the most promising projects, ensuring businesses can access high-quality carbon removal solutions that align with their net-zero goals. George started his career in consulting, working at PwC and Strategy& before transitioning into the startup world.
George Jones
Director of Supply
Supercritical
We're past the pledge phase. The question now is whether we're building the market infrastructure to match—fast enough, and built to last.
That means suppliers who can scale. Financing that reaches the projects that need it. Governments that move from acknowledgment to action. Businesses that stop waiting. And the contracts, standards, and trust between buyers and suppliers that make the whole system work.
Carbon removal isn't a transition technology. It's permanent infrastructure, as fundamental to a functioning economy as the energy system itself. Built to Last is the standard we're holding this industry to.
Carbon Removal London is the central gathering for the leaders defining what this market becomes: sustainability executives, project developers, policymakers, and financiers. One day, during London Climate Action Week, to confront shared challenges, drive the market forward, and create the conditions for what comes next.
In partnership with a coalition of industry shapers.
Monday 22nd June IET Savoy Place
Carbon Removal London 2026 is co-created by a coalition of partners representing the breadth of the carbon removal market.
11:00am–12:30pm, followed by lunch
Morning - Buyers session with lunch (by invitation)
A closed-door roundtable for active carbon removal buyers, held under Chatham House rules. Building a procurement engine: portfolio design, multi-year contracting, replacement credits, and criteria-first strategy. Limited to ~40 corporate sustainability professionals.
Interested in attending? Select the option on the registration form, and we'll be in touch to confirm your place.
Doors 12:30pm. Programme 1:00–5:30pm
Afternoon - Open programme
Short, sharp keynotes. Provocative conversations on pricing, policy, project development, and the finance gap. Built around questions, not topics, with enough space between sessions to go further on the topics that landed.
5:30–7:30pm
Evening - Rooftop reception
Drinks on the IET Savoy Place terrace overlooking the Thames.
The agenda
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11:00am–12:30pm, followed by lunch
Morning - Buyers session with lunch (by invitation)
A closed-door roundtable for active carbon removal buyers, held under Chatham House rules. Building a procurement engine: portfolio design, multi-year contracting, replacement credits, and criteria-first strategy. Limited to ~40 corporate sustainability professionals.
Interested in attending? Select the option on the registration form, and we'll be in touch to confirm your place.
Doors 12:30pm. Programme 1:00–5:30pm
Afternoon - Open programme
Short, sharp keynotes. Provocative conversations on pricing, policy, project development, and the finance gap. Built around questions, not topics, with enough space between sessions to go further on the topics that landed.
5:30–7:30pm
Evening - Rooftop reception
Drinks on the IET Savoy Place terrace overlooking the Thames.
The agenda
The agenda
1:15–2:00
Compliance is coming. Are you ready?
Panel (45 mins)
Moderator:
Speakers:
Lara Williams, Bloomberg. Chris Sherwood, Negative Emissions Platform · Dr. Mai Bui, Supercritical
CDR grew up as a voluntary market, but that's changing fast. ETS integration in Europe, new frameworks in the UK, and tightening standards from SBTi have real implications for regulated and voluntary buyers alike. This session cuts through the policy landscape and focuses on what buyers should be planning for now.
1:00–1:15
Opening: Where do we go from here?
Keynote (15 mins)
Michelle You, CEO, Supercritical
The market after Microsoft. Corporate climate budgets are shrinking, and every dollar is competing with the AI buildout. So why is the CDR market still maturing? Michelle makes the case that the transition from promise to performance is already underway and lays out what the next 18 months should look like.
2:15–2:30
Coffee break
2:30–3:20
How do you build a
million-tonne project?
Interactive group exercise (50 mins)
Facilitator:
Speakers:
Michelle You, Supercritical
Harris Cohn, Charm Industrial · Patrik Bosander, Stockholm Exergi
Getting a CDR project from slide deck to commercial scale requires buyers, financiers, and developers to solve different parts of the same problem. After a short onstage conversation with project developers and a financier about what actually makes a project bankable, each table role-plays one of those three perspectives through a structured group exercise. The panel closes by reacting to what the room produced.
3:20–3:30
Superpollutants:
Distraction or the next frontier?
Keynote provocation (10 mins)
Dr. Mai Bui, Director of Climate Science and Policy, Supercritical
Methane mitigation is generating serious buzz and serious skepticism. Is chasing super pollutants a strategic complement to CO₂ removal, or a dangerous distraction that lets emitters off the hook from long-term emissions?
A mix of keynotes, panels, interactive sessions, and fireside chats—each built around a single provocative question or viewpoint.
Doors:
Program:
2:00–2:15
The $100/tonne myth
Keynote provocatio (15 mins)
Bayo Owolabi, Partner, BCG
$100 per tonne is the canonical cost target for scaling durable CDR. A new BCG survey of carbon credit buyers across the full voluntary market unpacks where that number remains useful and where revisions might be due. Preview of elements from upcoming BCG reports, followed by audience Q&A.
3:30–3:45
Afternoon break
3:45–4:15
Craft or commodity:
Does the story matter?
Panel (30 mins)
Moderator:
Speakers:
Haley McKey, VP of Engagement, Carbon Business Council
Caroline Corbett-Thompson, Wise · Chloé Bigio, InPlanet
Some buyers treat CDR as a commodity: scale, cost, compliance-grade, interchangeable across methods and geographies. Others choose projects that align with their value chain, whether for employee engagement, customer storytelling, or brand. This session explores the trade-offs between the two and whether the market needs to pick a lane as it matures.
4.15-4.40
What does biochar look like in 2035?
Interactive panel (30 mins)
Moderator:
Speakers:
Jan-Willem Bode, President, Puro.earth
Exomad Green · Oliver Grogono, Cula · Dr. Genevieve Hodgins, Supercritical
Biochar delivers more tonnes than any other CDR method combined. But the next phase raises harder questions: competition from BECCS and SAF, site-level scaling limits, new feedstocks, and what project finance looks like as the sector matures. Each speaker opens with a single bold prediction about biochar in 2035, backed by one piece of evidence. Then the panel pressure-tests each other's claims.
5:00–7:00
Drinks on the rooftop
Open bar. No programming. The best conversations at CDR events happen after the sessions end. This is two hours for exactly that.
12:30
1:00–5:00
4:40–5.00
Does carbon removal
survive the headwinds?
Fireside chat (15 mins)
Interviewer:
Guest:
Corporate sustainability is in retreat. Buyers are going quiet, public commitments are shrinking, and the political environment is getting harder, not just for CDR but for clean energy, net zero targets, and climate pledges across the board. Can CDR hold its ground? Yusuf Khan puts that question to a senior corporate leader living it in real time.
Yusuf Khan, Wall Street Journal
To be announced
