Rencontres de l'Elimination du Carbone 2025

AFEN ORGANIZES LES Rencontres de l'Élimination du Carbone 2025

October 14 & 15, 2025 - Paris

Following the success of the 2024 edition, AFEN brings together the key players in carbon elimination for two days of strategic exchanges. This event brings together public institutions, major corporations, investors, researchers and startups around a common ambition: to accelerate the deployment of CDR solutions in France.

 

THE SPEAKERS

Discover the players involved

Adina Braha-Honciuc

Global Policy Director, Climate and Environment & Carbon Dioxide Removal Lead

Schneider Electric

Alexandre Marty

Head of Climate and Natural Resources

EDF

Alexis Manuel

Head of Carbon Desk

Engie

Andrew Shebbeare

Managing Partner

Counteract

Aurélie Gonzalez

Co-founder & CEO

Yama

Ben Field

Climate Strategy Manager

Patch

Bryan Reynolds

Director

Standard Gas

Cara Maesano

Independent Advisor

Rocky Mountain Institute

Carlos Andrade

Co-Holder

Carma Chair

Caroline Thaler

CEO and Founder

Bloomineral

Célia Agostini

Director

Cleantech for France

Chris Sherwood

Secretary General

Negative Emissions Platform

Clément Georget

Co-founder

Rainbow

Doug Edwards

Chief Executive Officer

Vesta

Eric Marty

Managing Partner

Demeter

Erica Dorr

Science Lead

Rainbow

Erika Laajalahti

Sector Manager

BioEnergia Finland

Fabrice Pernet

Research Scientist

IFREMER

Florence Delprat-Jannaud

President

Club CO2

Florian Maganza

Climate

Stripe

Frédéric Branger

Carbon Markets Office Manager

Directorate General for Energy and Climate

Jean-Pierre Gattuso

Senior Research Scientist

CNRS

Jörg Rüger

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)

Julie Gosalvez

President

AFEN

Karim Rahmani

Co-Founder and CEO

Carbon Impact

Karima Benelhadj

Sector Manager

BPI France

Karolina Unger

CEO & Founder

Climpo Sweden

Léo Barruol

Senior Manager, Portfolio & Partnerships

Schneider Electric - EcoAct

Lizzy Coad

Partner and Associate Director

Boston Consulting Group

Mallorie Navarre

CO2 Development Manager

Téréga

Mónica Larrazábal Álvarez-Guerra

CEO

Norma

Na'im Merchant

Executive Director

Carbon Removal Canada

Nicolas Sdez

Co-founder, CEO

Pronoe

Nicolas Zimmermann

Founding Partner

Carbonway

Olle Billinger

Senior Advisor

SEB Bank

Paolo Piffaretti

CEO & Co-Founder

ClimeFi

Pierre Friedlingstein

Professor (Climate Science)

IPSL

Quentin Servais-Laval

VP Finance & Operations

Deep Sky

Sébastien Dewarrat

Co-Founder

ClimeFi

Stefan Schlosser

Managing Director

DVNE Germany

Sylvain Delerce

Chief Scientist

Carbon Gap

Thomas Giraud

Managing Director and Partner

Boston Consulting Group

Thomas Le Guénan

Research engineer and Lead expert on risk management activities

BRGM

Valter Selén

Secretary General

Nordic Carbon Removal Association

Vanina Paoli-Gagin

Senator

Senate

Walid Sinno

Founder & CEO

Cquestra

Zamin Syed

Founder's Associate

SeaO2