08.00-09.00: Registration/Welcome

09.00-10.45: Session 1: Carbon across borders, low-carbon hydrogen and CCS

Chair: Maxine Akhurst, Principal Geologist, British Geological Survey

Maxine Akhurst, Principal Geologist, British Geological Survey – Welcome
R Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of CCS, The University of Edinburgh, SCCS Director – Scene setting / Bio- and techno-carbon sources to decrease greenhouse gas net emissions in Scotland

Anna Workman, Head of Carbon Leakage, BEIS & Brendan Bayley, Senior Policy Adviser (Trade Policy), HM Treasury – The UK’s approach to carbon leakage risk

Adam Whitmore, Principal Adviser Climate Change Policy, Bellona - Blue hydrogen, a path for now?

Eric De Coninck, CTO Technology Development, LIS Project Development, ArcelorMittal – ArcelorMittal Climate Neutrality plan

Per Brevik, Director of Alternative Fuels and Sustainability, Heidlelberg Cement – From being part of the problem to be part of the solution: CO₂ capture in the cement industry
Q&A

10.45-11.15: Break

11.15-12.15: Session 2: Negative emissions and carbon dioxide removals

Chair: Susana Garcia Lopez, Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering, Heriot-Watt University

Raphael Pfaeltzer, Developer of net zero infrastructure, Storegga – DACS for Carbon Dioxide Removal
Camilla Thomson, NEWEST-CCUS - NEWEST-CCUS: The emissions-reduction potential of Waste-to-Energy with CCUS in Europe
Kári Helgason, Head of Research & Innovation, Carbfix - DAC Innovation Park: Accelerating direct air capture development
Q&A

12.30-13.00: Session 3 - CCS in Scotland

Chair: Bryne Ngwenya, Head of School, GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh

Michael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Scottish Government - Keynote address: The importance of CCUS to achieving Scotland’s transition to net zero
David Rennie, Global Head of Energy and Low Carbon Transition & Trade, SDI - Scottish Enterprise study: CCS supply chain and expertise in Scotland

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Session 4 - Carbon offsetting markets

Chair: R Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of CCS, The University of Edinburgh, SCCS Director

Margriet Kuijper, Independent Consultant, Netherlands - The role of a Carbon Takeback Obligation in achieving energy security and emission reductions
Adrian Smith, Chief Financial Officer, Ecometrica, How could we transition current carbon markets to an efficient, fully regulated environment where global capital can be brought to it at scale, to bring about positive environmental change?

Matthew Brander, Senior Lecturer in Carbon Accounting, The University of Edinburgh - Two accounting issues for offsetting: corresponding adjustments and discounting reversal emissions
Q&A

15.00-15.30: Importance of storage permanence & closing remarks

R Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of CCS, The University of Edinburgh, SCCS Director

15.30-16.45: Poster session & networking

16.45-17.00: Leave

Registrations are closed

Net-zero boundaries and borders: where do we draw the line?