Nov 12, 2024


Last month, we hosted our third annual Carbon Removers Summit. Held over two days in Washington, DC, we convened a cross-section of folks from industry, academia, environmental justice, government, media, and fellow ENGOs — to get at the crux of what it really takes to build the field we want. The conversations veered from “how to build community-first climate projects” to “how we actually pay for DAC.” Here’s a look at the summit’s programming, plus a few snapshots of the dynamic conversations that followed. 

Day one

  • Opening remarks from Erin Burns (Executive Director at Carbon180)
  • Opening keynote from José G. González (Founder, Latino Outdoors)
  • Building community-first climate projects, a discussion with LaTricea Adams (Founder, CEO, and President at Young, Gifted & Green) and Darren Riley (Co-founder and CEO at JustAir). Moderated by Gautama Mehta (Environmental Justice Reporting Fellow at Grist).
  • Meditations on community power and developer objectives, an interactive workshop led by Eric Sutton (Senior Managing Environmental Justice Advisor at Carbon180)
  • Closing remarks from Mo Dailey (Managing Director of Programs at Carbon180).
  • Happy hour with everyone.

Day two

  • Opening remarks from Treshia Barclift (Managing Director of Strategy and Operations at Carbon180)
  • Welcome keynote from Kai Bosworth, PhD (Assistant Professor of International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University)
  • Learning from land CDR practitioners, a panel with Sara Medina (Sustainable Agriculture and Land Manager at Restore the Delta), Liz Holloway (Carbon Removal Project Manager at Appalachian Voices), Lord Ameyaw, PhD (Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska–Lincoln), and Igalious Mills (Owner, Mills Consulting). Moderated by Maya Glicksman (Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180).
  • How we fund DAC, a panel with Keeton Ross (Co-founder at Holocene), John Milko (Senior Managing Policy Advisor at Carbon180), and Poppy Russell (Research Associate at Counteract). Moderated by Amrith Ramkumar (Climate Finance Reporter at the Wall Street Journal).
  • Stewarding land and community resiliency, a panel with Kim Paul (Executive Director at the Piikani Lodge Health Institute), Tim Crews (Chief Scientist at The Land Institute), Andrew Berger (Director of Agriculture and Climate Adaptation Programs at the Piikani Lodge Health Institute), Larisa Jacobson (Climate Justice & Advocacy Co-Director at Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust), and Cristel Zoebisch (Director of Policy at Carbon180). Moderated by Lisa Held (Senior Staff Reporter at Civil Eats).
  • Carbon removal law and community benefits, a discussion with Hadia Sheerazi (Community Engagement Manager at RMI), Quinn Antus (Emerging Markets and Carbon Management Program Manager at the Colorado Energy Office), and Julian Gross (Attorney, Law office of Julian Gross). Moderated by Alayna Chuney, Esq. (Director at Carbon180).
  • New futures for carbon removal, a discussion with Anu Khan (Founder and Executive Director at the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative), Erin Burns (Executive Director at Carbon180), and Peter Minor, PhD (CEO and Co-founder at Absolute Climate). Moderated by Josh Siegel (Reporter at Politico).
  • Closing remarks from Erin Burns, Executive Director at Carbon180.

Edited by Tracy Yu. Images by Lancer Photography.