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Speakers
Kash is an energy economist with over 20 years’ experience in the energy-climate space. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for scaling up HSBC’s investment across the carbon management value chain, with a focus on structured debt products in the CDR space. Prior to joining HSBC, Kash worked at Systemiq where he led the Energy Transition Commission’s research into the role of CCUS/CDR in reaching Net Zero. Before that he worked at BP in Group Economics and French utility EDF in corporate strategy.
Kash Burchett
Global Head of Carbon Removal Technologies
HSBC
Caroline Corbett-Thompson
Global ESG Manager
Wise
Caroline spearheads climate and social impact initiatives at Wise, channeling her passion into projects that directly engage vulnerable communities affected by climate change. Currently, she is dedicated to delivering innovative climate solutions aimed at catalyzing lasting, transformative change.
Bayo Owolabi is a core member of Boston Consulting Group's Energy and Climate & Sustainability practices. Bayo's expertise in decarbonization strategies and energy transition inform his collaborations with governments, private enterprises, and public sector organizations to design and implement low-carbon infrastructure solutions.
A technology enthusiast with a passion for low-carbon innovation, Bayo has a track record of cross-functional leadership, having built and run high-performing teams that tackle complex challenges in the energy industry. His career spans both strategic advisory and operational excellence roles, and he is a thought leader and trusted advisor on carbon management topics.
Beyond his consulting work, Bayo is committed to social impact and public service innovation. He actively explores how emerging technologies can enhance public sector efficiency and is the co-founder of a charity dedicated to early-years literacy and nutrition support.
Bayo Owolabi
Partner
BCG
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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Carbon Removal London 2026 is co-created by a coalition of partners representing the breadth of the carbon removal market.
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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
1:15–2:00
Compliance is coming. Are you ready?
Panel (45 mins)
Moderator:
Speakers:
Lara Williams, Bloomberg Opinion
Chris Sherwood, Negative Emissions Platform · Dr. Mai Bui, Supercritical · Sarju Patel, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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, 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
Kash Burchett, HSBC · 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, 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
Is $100/tonne a myth?
Keynote provocation (15 mins)
Bayo Owolabi, 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, Carbon Business Council
Caroline Corbett-Thompson, Wise · Chloé Bigio, InPlanet · Adina Braha-Honciuc, Schneider Electric
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, Puro.earth
Marcelo Pereira, Exomad Green · Oliver Erb, 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.
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.
To be announced
Ali Ashpitel, Mercedes AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
The agenda
Afternoon open sessions
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.
Afternoon open sessions
A mix of keynotes, panels, interactive sessions, and fireside chats—each built around a single provocative question or viewpoint.
1:00–5:00
Morning
buyers session
11:00–12:30
How to build a CDR procurement engine
Invite only
Morning buyers session
Evening
reception
5:00–7:00
Drinks on the rooftop
Evening reception
