COP29 Side Event – Carbon Management Challenge: Scaling Carbon Management to Gigatons

Time: 12:00 PM | Date: 16 November | Location: Saudi Arabia Pavilion (Blue Zone)

Join the CMC at the Saudi Arabia Pavilion for our first side-event at this year’s COP titled “Carbon Management Challenge: Scaling Carbon Management to Gigatons”.

The current global deployment rates of carbon management are significantly below the levels necessary to achieve the modelled pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C. Scientific evidence stresses the urgent need for comprehensive carbon management strategies, policies, and projects to meet the global goals set by the international community. In the immediate future, managing carbon at a gigaton scale—reducing and removing at least 1 Gt of CO2 or more annually—will be essential in tackling the global climate challenge.

The event will include insights on:

• the urgent need for comprehensive carbon management strategies
• how industry players are driving the climate action plans
• the value of collaboration to support the scale of carbon management technologies and more.

With discussions moderated by the CMC’s Secretariat Coordinator Noora Al-Amer, we will be joined alongside key climate policy and industry experts, including Faisel Al-Musa, General Manager with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy, Clare Broadbent, Head of Sustainability at World Steel, Andrew Minson, Director Concrete and Sustainable Construction at the Global Cement and Concrete Association, and Jarad Daniels, CEO of the Global CCS Institute.