This is CDR: Octavia Carbon's Project Hummingbird - Direct Air Capture in the Great Rift Valley.

​Join us for a conversation with Duncan Kariuki, Co-founder & CPO, and Martin Freimüller, Co-founder & CEO of Octavia Carbon, Africa’s first and only Direct Air Capture (DAC) company, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

​Octavia Carbon is making history by building Project Hummingbird, the first commercial DAC facility in the Global South, located in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. The company is scaling cutting-edge carbon removal technology while forging a community-first approach to deployment, ensuring that local stakeholders play a key role in shaping the future of DAC in the region.

​In this session, our guests will share:
🔹 The latest updates on Project Hummingbird – milestones, challenges, and what’s ahead
🔹 How Octavia Carbon is scaling DAC in Kenya with $5M in recent seed funding
🔹 Their novel approach to community engagement and responsible climate action in the Global South

​Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from the pioneers of DAC in Africa and learn how carbon removal innovation is taking root in new regions.