Ben Todd
Ecosystem Lead
Ben is a dedicated climate professional with a background in tech marketing and communications. As Ecosystem Lead at Carbon Gap, he aims to bring cohesiveness, collaboration, and coordination to the CDR landscape across Europe to influence policymakers more effectively.
Ben is excited to be continuing his climate career in the CDR space, believing that scaling both novel and established methods will prove crucial to solving the climate crisis. In his previous role with the Negative Emissions Platform, he led a coalition of CDR organisations to bring about the first-ever Carbon Dioxide Removal pavilion at COP30. He has also worked at project developer UNDO as a PR, marketing, and communications specialist.
He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in International Relations and Geography. In his spare time, he is an avid padel player and crossword puzzle fanatic.
ARTICLES BY BEN TODD
7 Oct 2026 | Chris Sherwood, Ben Todd
Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure and Project Deployment - Policy Summit takeaways
How should the EU build CO₂ transport and storage networks? Five Summit recommendations to give carbon removal projects of every size fair access.
21 Sept 2026 | Alexander Mäkelä and Ben Todd
Carbon Gap launches the policy levers library, mapping 165 levers to scale carbon removal in Europe
The Policy Levers Library is a free, open resource mapping policy tools available to governments, companies, and institutions seeking to scale carbon removal.