Expert Meeting on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and Carbon Dioxide Capture, Use and Storage

Day 1

8:30 - 9:15

Registration

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome addresses

>          Magnus Brunner, Federal Minister of Finance of the Republic of Austria

>          Jim Skea, IPCC Chair

>          Leonore Gewessler, Austrian Minister of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology  [video]

10:00 – 10:40

Plenary session 1 (Presentations and discussion)

>          Takeshi Enoki and Mazhar Hayat, Co-Chairs of IPCC TFI

>          Rob Sturgiss, Background and objectives of the meeting (IPCC TFI TSU)

>          Q&A

10:40 -11:00

Morning tea

11:00 – 13:00

DACS/BECSS/CCUS - Presentations  (15 minutes each)

>          Simon Pang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Engineered Solutions to Carbon Dioxide Removal

>          Mai Bui, (Imperial College London), Assessing the deployment potential of direct air capture and BECCS technologies

>          Mark De Figueiredo (US DoE) Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of CDR and CCUS: US Experiences and Lessons Learned for National GHG Inventories

>          Paul Zakkour (Carbon counts) Experiences with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for CO₂ transport and storage: a rapid review of national reporting practices

>          Dario Gomez (Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina) [On-line] Existing guidance and need for updating on carbon dioxide capture in Volume 2 of the IPCC Guidelines

>          Speakers Panel Discussion, Q&A, [30-45 minutes]

13:00-14:15

Lunch break

14:15 –15:40

Inorganic carbon - Presentations (15 minutes each)

>          Karen Scrivener (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), CO₂ Uptake by Cement Based Materials: Principles, estimation, unknowns and future trends

>          Jens Hartman (Universität Hamburg), [On-line] Enhanced weathering and ocean alkalinity enhancement – TBC

>          Anu Khan (carbon180) Jurisdiction-Level Monitoring for Enhanced Weathering: Infrastructure, Data, and Maintenance Needs

>          Andrew Lenton (CSIRO) CDR in territorial waters: the challenges and opportunities

>          Speakers' Panel Discussion: Q&A

15:40-16:00

Afternoon tea

16:00-16:30

Biogenic – Presentations (15 minutes each)

>          Claudia Kammann, (Hochschule Geisenheim University), State of Biochar-CDR: Growth of industries, C persistence, CDR co-benefits and current C-sink certification and trading schemes.

>          Speakers' Panel Discussion: Q&A

16:30-18:00

General (15 minutes each)

>          Mihri Ozkan (University of California), [On-line] Advancing Direct Air Capture: Empirical Foundations and Methodological Innovations for Emission Reduction

>          Omkar Patange (IIASA) and Amit Garg (Indian Institute of Management) The feasibility of developing new or updated IPCC default methods (and default emission factors) for various emerging technologies 

>          Steve Smith (University of Oxford) Current CDR activity and gaps in existing IPCC Guidelines

>          Freya Chay – (Carbon Plan) Open scientific questions across carbon removal approaches

>          Speakers' Panel Discussion: Q&A

Day 2

09:00 - 13:00

BOG sessions

BOG 1 - engineered capture, utilisation & geological storage

>         Katherine Romanak (University of Texas at Austin),  Improving the Protocols for CO₂ Leakage Monitoring with Attribution

BOG 2 - inorganic processes and storage: rock weathering, ocean alkanisation, concrete

>          Miguel Ángel Sanjuán (IECA), State of the art on the quantification of natural carbonation of cement-based materials as a CO₂ capture mechanism

BOG 3 - Biogenic processes and storage: soils, ocean fertilisation and blue carbon

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch break

14:30 - 17:00

BOG sessions

BOG 1: Engineered capture, utilisation & geological storage

BOG 2: Inorganic processes and storage

BOG 3:  Biogenic processes and storage

17:00 - 18:00

Plenary session

Day 2 catch-up, discussion and Q&A

Information on reception logistics

19:00 -

Reception hosted by the Austrian Government

Day 3

09:00 - 13:00

BOG sessions continued

BOG 1: Engineered capture, utilisation & geological storage

BOG 2: Inorganic processes and storage

BOG 3:  Biogenic processes and storage

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch break

14:30 – 18:00

Plenary session (Discussion based on reports from BOGs & wrap-up)

Reports - BOG1, BOG2, BOG3

Closing remarks