{"id":2860,"date":"2025-06-24T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afen.fr\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:00:16","slug":"lelimination-du-carbone-imperatif-et-opportunite-pour-lindustrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afen.fr\/en\/actualite\/scaling-carbon-removal-imperative-opportunity-industrial-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Elimination: Imperative and Opportunity for Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On June 10th, AFEN and RMI<\/a> onvened industry leaders, sustainability professionals, investors, regulators, and policymakers to delve into a critical question: How do we leverage existing heavy industries to advance and scale carbon removal? The discussion took place in Paris at the Herbert-Smith-Freehills office and built upon the insights of RMI's recent report,\u00a0Seizing the Industrial Carbon Removal Opportunity<\/a>, providing a platform to explore both the compelling business case and real-world examples of industrial carbon removal (CDR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Convening over 80 participants, the event gathered representants of large industrial players as Stellantis, Renault, Veolia, Arcelor Mittal, Suez, Schneider Electric\u2026 It began with a high-level overview presented by Cara Maesano, emphasizing that gigaton-scale carbon removal<\/a> , essential for meeting global climate targets and addressing carbon budget debts by 2050, demands vast physical resources \u2013 billions of tons of rocks, immense water volumes, and hundreds of terawatts of energy. Heavy industries, by leveraging their existing waste streams, infrastructure, and underutilized assets, are uniquely positioned to capitalize on their capacity and experience to provide these resources. The presentation highlighted that industries stand to gain significantly from supporting projects or integrating them directly into existing processes and value chains, anticipating new revenue streams, reduced waste management costs, improved regulatory compliance, and a competitive edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this, Alexandre Marty, Head of Climate and Natural Resources at EDF<\/a>, France's leading energy company, shared their strategic approach to decarbonization. Committed to a 2050 net-zero target and managing 90 MtCO2 emissions, EDF emphasized the critical challenge of defining the optimal mix between emission reductions and carbon capture and removal. Their perspective highlighted the interplay between corporate strategy, climate goals, and broader planetary boundaries (e.g., the water cycle). EDF views CDR as required to go beyond negative emissions, providing additional benefits and avoiding new risks, recognizing their significant R&D capacity and energy supply as key enablers for scaling technologies like Direct Air Capture (DAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A subsequent panel discussion moderated by Caroline Thaler of Bloomineral, featured insights from Jean-Luc Reboul, from ArcelorMittal (steel manufacturer) and Malik Kerkar, Carbon Projects Director at Suez (waste management company). The participants further illuminated the interest and action in diverse pathways and challenges for heavy industry's engagement with CDR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n