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2025 CRC Webinar - Creating the CDR Leaders of Tomorrow

Universities must lead capacity building in carbon dioxide removal!

Join us for our next webinar, Building the CDR Workforce of Tomorrow!

We at the Carbon Removal Challenge have always maintained the future of CDR will come from University faculty and students. And we're not the only ones.

​OpenAir co-founder Matt Parker will moderate a panel of experts to discuss the important higher education is to increasing available workforce for carbon removal and their vital importance to accelerating its advancement . The Panelist will be Mijndert van der Spek, lead author on the recently published peer reviewed paper in Nature "Universities must lead capacity building in carbon dioxide removal;" Chris Sherwood; Secretary-General of the Negative Emissions Platform; and Dr. XiaoYu Wu, Assistant professor in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo and advisor to 3 CRC finalist teams!

Learn more about the Carbon Removal Challenge

To learn more about the CRC, please visit our webpage: https://openaircollective.com/crc/

Please check out a previous webinar: Demystifying Venture Capital for CDR:

OpenAir is a 100% volunteer-led, global network dedicated to fighting climate change by accelerating carbon removal advancement and evolution through member initiated missions.