2026 Carbon Elimination Conference
October 13 & 14, 2026 – Paris
AFEN is delighted to invite you to the 2026 edition of the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Conference in France, hosted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Following the success of previous editions, this major annual industry gathering is taking on a new scale and will focus this year on operational deployment and concrete solutions to accelerate the transition to action.
Under the theme of synergies, the program includes roundtable discussions, workshops, and opportunities for dialogue with key players in the carbon removal sector (CR).
On the agenda:
OCTOBER 13 (1:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.)
Plenary session followed by a cocktail reception
- Keynotes:
- Introduction and Public Policy (Diane Simiu, DGEC)
- Overall Overview of the EDC (Kirsty Harrington, State of CDR)
- Bankability of the EDC (Fabienne Moimaux, BNP Paribas)
- Report: "In the Voluntary Carbon Market, Buyers Will Pay for Quality" (Bayo Owolabi, BCG)
- SBTi 2.0 (Piera Patrizio, SBTi)
- Presentation by Isometric (Nora Venin, Isometric).
- Roundtable Discussions:
- How Governments Can Support Demand (Fabien Ramos, European Commission × Frédéric Branger, DGEC × Na’im Merchant, Carbon Removal Canada)
- Buying CDR in 2026 (Léo Barruol, Schneider Electric × Vincent Poncet, Google × Julien Manceaux, TD Bank Canada)
- Integrating EDC into the Industrial Value Chain (Elodie Le Cadre, Veolia x Fabien Michel, Carborok)
- Fireside Chats:
- An Overview of the French CDR Ecosystem (Jean-Luc Fugit, Member of Parliament × Sylvain Delerce, Carbon Gap)
- From Agreement to Deployment (Jan Mertens, CSO at Engie × Quentin Servais-Laval, CFO at Deep Sky)
OCTOBER 14 (9 a.m.–1 p.m.)
Collaborative workshops, sharing of feedback from the field, and thematic working groups.
- Keynote:
- EDC in the Regions (Stockholm Exergi), followed by a panel discussion on the same topic
- Roundtable Discussions:
- BioCCS in France (Karim Rahmani, Carbon Impact; Camille Poiroux, GrDF; Téréga; Ludovic Mougeot, Suez; Marion Péotta, Crédit Agricole)
- Nature-based solutions
- Workshops:
- Integration of the CDR into the ETS
- Nature-based solutions
- Structuring of off-take contracts.
Additional speakers will be announced shortly.
Reserve your spot now!
*This event is for professionals only; please register using your work email address.
