Demand in Practice: How Buyers, Banks, and Governments Scale Carbon Removal

Demand in Practice follows carbon removal demand from buyer to market to bank, using a real deal as its starting point. The Lower Thames Crossing, Britain’s pathfinder for carbon-neutral construction and the first UK infrastructure project with a legally binding carbon limit, explains why it is procuring carbon removals and what that commitment adds to its investment case. Centalion sets out where demand is heading over the next decade and whether high-quality supply can keep pace, and UBS looks at which financing structures are moving capital into removals today and which can scale.

The session closes with clear asks for governments: recognise durable carbon removal in the next round of NDCs and in the COP31 outcome, and back that recognition with procurement and crediting frameworks that make removals financeable. Hosted by Carbonaires, a sponsor of the Think Negative CDR Pavilion.