Ashleigh was the Carbon Dioxide Removals Lead for the UN Climate Change High Level Champions team for COP26 and COP27. As CDR lead she launched the Race to Zero’s CDR 2030 Breakthrough, co-founded Carbon Removals at COP (carbonremovals.earth) and worked alongside the...

Harry Smith is a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of East Anglia, focusing on the governance of Greenhouse Gas Removal within national and global climate policy. Previously, Harry has worked as a climate consultant, working with governments on the...

Victoria Harvey is a Carbon Removal Ratings Coordinator at BeZero Carbon, a global ratings agency for the voluntary carbon market. Previously Victoria was a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London in the Centre for Environmental Policy, focused on carbon removal policy developments, and worked at the Carbon Removal Centre researching corporate engagement in carbon removal.

Travis Caddy is the Business Development Director at Evident where he oversees strategy and partnerships across multiple registries certifying the Clean Economy. He joined Evident in early 2020 after graduating from University College London with a bachelor’s degree in Geography. In his previous role, Travis was the Product Manager for C-Capsule, one of Evident’s emergent registries for durable GGR.

Jack Turnham is a Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Originator at Drax Group where he works to build the company’s carbon removal business. Jack has a first-class honours degree in Material Science and Engineering from Swansea University. After a university year in industry at Cummins, he returned as a project engineer developing on-highway heavy goods vehicles for the upcoming Euro7 and EPA27 regulations period. After two years, his interest in moving into sustainable technology was calling and he began at Drax in mid-2023. Jack is based in the vibrant Leeds but can be found in London on occasion.

Shefali graduated from Imperial College London with a Masters in Design Engineering, where she built skills in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering with the goal of creating products and services that work for people and the planet. Currently, she is a...