Dr. Meera Atreya is the Director of Carbon Direct Europe and a Senior Scientist, helping organisations measure, reduce, and remove their greenhouse gas emissions. Working in climate tech research and strategic advisory since 2009, Dr. Atreya recently led the Energy Transitions Commission’s analysis of the role of bioresources in climate change mitigation. She also co-authored internationally recognised research on alleviating the plastic waste crisis while at SYSTEMIQ and was recognised for her cleantech expertise during her tenure at McKinsey.  She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and an…

John Beckett is a technology and climate entrepreneur based in Dublin, Ireland. He is the Co-founder and Chair of the Nature Trust, a not-for-profit dedicated to native woodland afforestation, peatland rehabilitation, and rewilding at scale. The Nature Trust partners with the Irish State and is committed to delivering projects of the highest integrity over the long-term. An ambitious goal of rehabilitating at least 1% of the land area of Ireland is being enabled using innovative financial products that have been developed and brought to market successfully since 2021.   In addition…

Jessica Omukuti is a Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero, working with the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Jessica co-leads Oxford Net Zero’s research on how net zero can be made to be more inclusive to the Global South and to diverse groups within the Global South and Global North. She leads Oxford Net Zero’s engagement with stakeholders in the Global South to outline pathways to inclusive net zero strategies, policies and actions. Jessica has…

Steve researches climate change mitigation at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is Executive Director of CO2RE, the UK’s multi-disciplinary research hub for greenhouse gas removal, as well as the Oxford Net Zero Initiative. He is lead author of the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal and co-developer of the Net Zero Tracker.  Before rejoining academia, Steve co-led the Climate Science Team at the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Previously was Head of Science at the Climate Change Committee….

Professor Richard Templer is the August von Hofmann Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London. For the past 15 years his work has been focussed on support for innovators and entrepreneurs seeking to combat the causes and effects of climate change. In 2010 he co-founded the Climate-KIC and became its UK Director and the Director of Education. He launched the UK’s first specialist accelerator for climate innovations at the end of 2011 and by 2012 was supporting pre-seed investment start-ups developing innovations to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store…

Dr. Phil Renforth is an Associate Professor in the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions at Heriot-Watt University. His research combines skills in civil and process engineering, engineering geology, and geochemistry to investigate methods of atmospheric CO2 removal through reaction with rocks and minerals. This includes connecting experimental work from bench-top to pilot scale, with technology and environmental impact assessment. In 2019 he co-founded and now co-chief edits of the world’s first dedicated publication on carbon removal (Frontiers in Climate: Negative Emission Technologies) and was the science coordinator for the UK’s…

Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, University of Oxford. He served on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its 3rd, 4th and 5th assessments, and was a Coordinating Lead Author for its special report on ‘the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.   He is the Director of Oxford Net Zero, the University of Oxford’s interdisciplinary research initiative on net zero, and founded the Climate Prediction project, the world’s largest climate modelling…

Eve Tamme is a senior advisor on climate policy. Her expertise covers a broad range of policy tools and processes, including carbon markets, carbon removal, carbon capture and climate governance. She spent the first 15 years of her career as a policymaker in national and European institutions, shaping climate policy on European and international level. Later, she led policy engagement in a global non-profit. Eve leads Climate Principles, a climate policy advisory focusing on carbon markets, carbon removal and carbon capture. Eve is the Chair of the Zero Emissions Platform…

Emily Cox is a research associate at the Universities of Oxford and Cardiff. She is a social scientist in energy and climate, with expertise in public attitudes and behaviours, risk, resilience, and socio-technical systems. Her research focuses on public perceptions of carbon removal techniques. Understanding public attitudes is crucial for the ethical and effective development of new technologies, and Emily’s work aims to enhance public participation in climate innovation. Emily previously worked as a lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University and taught Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. Emily…

Cameron Hepburn is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also serves as the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.  Cameron has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across disciplines including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics, public policy and law, drawing on degrees in law and engineering (Melbourne University) and masters and doctorate in economics (Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar). He…