This Is CDR: Announcing the 2026 Carbon Removal Challenge!

Join us for the launch of the OpenAir Collective's 4th annual Carbon Removal Challenge (CRC), a global university student competition!

​Learn about how you can participate in the CRC as a student, faculty member, judge, mentor, panelist, or sponsor. Hear first hand from 2025 student finalists about their experiences participating in the program and presenting at Carbon Unbound in New York City.

​Our panelists will be Julian Barth from EPFL (Switzerland), Robert Duff from University of Waterloo (Canada), Ethan Milroy from Western University and Ivey Business School (Canada), Faith Qin from Stanford (US), and Aidan Mickleburgh from University of Michigan (US). Moderating will be Sue Dorward, who leads the CRC for OpenAir.

​If you're curious about the finalists' carbon removal solutions, see below or watch the recording of the 2025 Final Showcase at the Carbon Unbound East conference: https://youtu.be/qp1O5v21nT0

For more information about the CRC, visit https://openaircollective.com/crc/

Check out last Challenge’s amazing finalist and how the Carbon Removal Challenge impacted them: