Building a Billion-Tonne Blueprint

Join the carbon removal sector to determine what it takes to put Canada on a path to catalyzing a billion tonnes of carbon removal by 2050.

Event details:

Thursday, March 5, 2026
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST

National Arts Centre, 1 Elgin St.
The Canada Room
Ottawa, ON

Explore how we get from demonstration projects to massive commercial deployment, discover breakthrough partnerships driving real-world implementation, and shape the policies needed to rapidly and responsibly scale this critical climate solution.

Network with industry leaders and policymakers, while helping to build the blueprint for Canada’s leadership in the global carbon removal sector.

This year’s topics will explore:

We are grateful for the support from:

Presenting partners

Event partners

The agenda:

9:00AM – 9:20AM	Open Registration
9:20AM – 9:30AM	Opening Remarks
9:30AM – 9:45AM	PRESENTATION Net-Zero and Beyond: The Economics of Going Carbon Negative
9:45AM – 10:00AM	PRESENTATION Keynote
10:00AM – 10:30AM	PANEL The New Mining Mandate: Integrating Carbon Removal
10:30AM – 11:00AM	Networking Break
11:00AM – 11:30AM	PANEL Perfect Partnerships: Carbon Removal as a Competitive Advantage
11:30AM – 12:00PM	PRESENTATION Leading Locally: How are we Making Carbon Removal Real?
12:00PM – 1:00PM	Lunch and Networking
1:00PM – 1:15PM	ANNOUNCEMENT A New Initiative to Scale Carbon Removal
1:15PM – 1:45PM	FIRESIDE CHAT One Nation, One Economy: The Carbon Removal Connection
1:45PM – 2:15PM	PANEL A Global Gigatonne Race
2:15PM – 3:15PM	ACTIVITY Policy Roundtables
3:15PM – 3:45PM	Networking Break
3:45PM – 4:30PM	ACTIVITY Policy Pitch Arena: Bold Ideas for a Billion-Tonnes
4:30PM – 5:00PM	PANEL Getting Shovels, and Carbon, in the Ground
5:00PM	Closing Remarks
5:00PM – 6:00PM	Networking Reception