Wednesday 19 June 2024

Mathematical Institute, Oxford

9am - 5pm

53852080483_851f524216_o.jpg

Plenary 2: 09.00 - 10.30 am

Latest Developments in Measurement, Reporting & Verifying 

Stay updated on the latest advancements in Measurement, Reporting, and Verifying (MRV) methodologies with insights from our distinguished panel: 

  • Jo House: Chairing the session and Lead on Monitoring, Reporting & Verification and Socio-ecological Systems at the University of Bristol. 

  • Paul Zakkour: Founding Director of Carbon Counts, providing expertise on innovative MRV approaches. 

  • David Ho: Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at [C]Worthy; Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, offering insights into MRV methods related to oceanic carbon sequestration. 

  • Mission Innovation: Announcing a new student competition from Mission Innovation, highlighting opportunities for student engagement in MRV research and innovation. 

Join this esteemed panel to explore cutting-edge MRV technologies, methodologies, and initiatives driving advancements in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of monitoring, reporting, and verifying CDR efforts on a global scale. 

Parallel Sessions - 11.00 - 12.30pm

Engaging with public groups is key to the responsible scaling of carbon removal. This session will discuss results from interview-, workshop-, and survey-based studies on perceptions of carbon removal across multiple geographies, including the Global South, highlighting public priorities not only for technology development but also governance and policy. 

Chair: Sara Nawaz 

Abstracts 

  • Sean Low: Public perceptions on carbon removal from focus groups in 22 countries 

  • Elspeth Spence: Perspectives on CDRs from Malaysian Borneo 

  • Emily Cox: Attitudes to socio-technical imaginaries of novel carbon removal techniques – a framing study 

  • Julie Ingram: Navigating biomass crops as greenhouse gas removal solutions: stakeholder perspectives  

Social and Ethical 2

National Policy

While CDR got mainstreamed as a policy option via global modelling studies, it only becomes reality through the integration of CDR into national climate policy. This session will discuss four cases, dealing with specific political and geographical contexts, pre-existing regulatory landscapes and sometimes pre-existing preferences for CDR methods. 

Chair: Oliver Geden 

Speakers: 

  • Alana Hollestelle: Lessons from a locationally specific TEA approach to support sub-national policy making  

  • Klaas Korte: Policies to incentivise the efficient use of CDR in agriculture: Economic assessment and stakeholder perception of policy instrument strategies 

  • Lauri Kujanpää: The techno-economic potential of technological carbon sinks in Finland, and the required policy incentives 

  • Caitlyn Baljak: Removal Down Under: Australian Greenhouse Gas Removal Policy 

Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) 1 

Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) is considered essential for addressing residual emissions in hard-to-abate sectors. Key challenges for these processes are the high energy consumption and costs as well as capture media stability. This session will discuss ways to improve the performance of both the capture and regeneration processes of DACCS technologies.  

Chair: Mijndert Van der Spek 

Speakers: 

  • Paul de Joannis de Verclos: Direct air capture by monoethanolamine absorption with lean vapor compression 

  • Marco Mazzotti: Performance of pellet and monolith contactors in direct air capture 

  • Natalie Rosen: Electrochemical processes in direct air capture: What’s the current potential? 

  • Yoseph A. Guta: Impacts of Environmental Conditions on the Stability of Aminopolymer Sorbents for Direct Air Capture 

Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) 2 

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is gaining traction as a viable carbon dioxide removal strategy. This session will explore the latest research on ERW, including methods for measuring agricultural enhanced weathering, the complexities of soil-rock interactions, and the spatial variability in soil composition affecting weathering rates. Additionally, long-term studies are highlighted for their crucial role in understanding the carbon dynamics of ERW.  

Chair: Rachael James 

Speakers: 

  • Heath Hasemer: Measuring Agricultural Enhanced Weathering 

  • Xuming Li: Missing Alkalinity: Unraveling Soil-Rock Interactions in Enhanced Rock Weathering 

  • Tom Reershemius: Spatial variability in the elemental composition of agricultural soils and implications for quantifying enhanced weathering rates 

  • Lucilla Boito: Feeling the “pulse”: long-term studies are key to understanding carbon dynamics in EW  

Parallel Sessions - 2.00 - 3.30pm

Global Policy 1

The session starts with a discussion of the global policy gap for CDR technologies compared to the CDR needs estimated in global mitigation scenarios. It then addresses the coverage of CDR in NDCs from a legal perspective, and discusses why separate CDR targets should cover nature-based CDR. Finally, different accounting approaches for CDR are compared.  

Chair: Axel Michaelowa 

Speakers: 

  • William Lamb: The Carbon Dioxide Removal Gap 

  • Sarah Patrick: Carbon Dioxide Removal and the Paris Agreement: Best Practices for the Inclusion of CDR in Nationally Determined Contributions 

  • Matt Gidden: Aligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks 

  • Nadin Moustafa: Integrating GGR technologies into Carbon Accounting Frameworks  

Methane Removal

Methane removal is crucial for mitigating climate change due to its high global warming potential. This session will explore cutting-edge methods for methane abatement, including vacuum-temperature swing adsorption for preconcentration, advancements in photocatalytic abatement using innovative micro-structured SiO2 substrates, and catalytic oxidation techniques. Additionally, we will discuss the novel approach of utilizing Cl radicals from seawater for methane removal.

Chair: Rob Jackson  

Speakers: 

  • Sai Gokul Subraveti: Preconcentration of methane by vacuum-temperature swing adsorption for removal from air 

  • Zhentao Wu: Advancements in Photocatalytic Methane Abatement: Unveiling the Innovative Micro-Structured SiO2 Substrates 

  • Yuyin Wang: Catalytic oxidation for methane removal 

  • Qingchun Yuan: Harnessing Cl radicals from seawater to removal methane 

Marine CDR

Marine CDR (mCDR) scenarios highlight the potential for removals and several key, significant, non-technical challenges. This session identifies, explores, and highlights the importance of addressing some of these non-technical challenges and discusses how these can be considered more holistically ahead of potential future deployments. 

Chair: David Keller 

Speakers: 

  • Miranda Böttcher: Broadening blue (carbon) futures:  Qualitative foresight as an anticipatory assessment tool for marine carbon dioxide removal 

  • Wil Burns: The Potential Role of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction in Regulating Marine-Based CDR Approaches 

  • Christine Merk: Bad company: Negative spillovers between the perceptions of marine Carbon Dioxide Removal options 

  • Nadine Mengis: CDR options for Germany with storage or sequestration in the marine environment - The 10Mt CO2 / year removal challenge 

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) 2 

BECCS relies on supply of sustainable biomass. However, as the climate transition progresses, competition for biomass and other critical resources will escalate. This session delves into innovative BECCS supply chains across the US, the UK, and the Nordics. It explores new biomass sources, clustering-initiatives, and performance optimization related to biofuels, electricity, heat, and carbon removal markets. 

Chair: Mathias Fridahl 

Speakers: 

  • Wenqin Li: How Biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) can contribute to U.S. neutrality goal in 2050 

  • Muir Freer: Co-Deployment of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK: Growth or Gridlock? 

  • Diarmaid Clery: A BECCS hub located in the UK context – logistical, policy, regulatory and community dimensions 

Plenary 3 - 4.00 - 5.00pm

CDR in National Policymaking

Join us for a dynamic discussion on the integration of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) into national policymaking, featuring panelists: 

  • Prof. Cameron Hepburn: Chair of the session and Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford. 

  • Prof. Jen Wilcox: Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy (DoE). 

  • Fabiola Zerbini: Director at the Brazil Department of Forests. 

  • Fabien Ramos: Carbon Removals Lead at the European Commission. 

  • Prof. Gideon Henderson: Prof. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford 

Gain insights from these esteemed experts as they explore the role of CDR in shaping national climate agendas and driving transformative policy action. 

Conference Schedule