International Conference
10–12 June 2026 | Milano, Politecnico di Milano
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The CMCC Foundation, as the coordinator of the UPTAKE project, will be hosting the 4th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Removal (formerly the International Conference on Negative CO₂ Emissions) on June 10–12, 2026 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
In line with the CMCC strategic program on Integrating Industrial & Planetary Carbon Cycle, this event aims to highlight the latest scientific developments in the field of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
The conference is the fourth in a series of events aimed at addressing the rapidly increasing importance of CDR in climate research and in meeting climate targets. The first two conferences in this series were conceived and held at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden and the last edition was organized by the CO2RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub in Oxford, UK.
The event brings together scientists and experts across a wide range of disciplines and research topics – including science and engineering, policy, economics and public perceptions – to forge connections and to create a platform for wider discussion of the role of CDR in climate action and sustainable development.
Conference Themes include:
- Fundamental science and technology. Developments in understanding the fundamental processes of physics, chemistry and biology underpinning CDR strategies.
- Policy, economics and upscaling. Analysis of emerging and potential policies to incentivise, regulate or accelerate innovation and upscaling of CDR and the costs and benefits of such interventions. The focus can be at international, regional or national levels, or can be at sub-national scales for cases of particular wider relevance.
- Advances in Measurement, Reporting and Verification. New techniques and protocols for robust and transparent measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of CDR. The focus is on the use of novel techniques combining AI and EO with other conventional methods that can be on project-level MRV, or at the level of national or organisation-level inventories.
- Lifecycle assessment, techno-economic assessment and system integration. Assessment of the performance of CDR strategies across the lifecycle and supply chains of technologies and projects. Insights into the interaction of CDR with energy, industrial and land systems, particularly within comprehensive climate change mitigation pathways, through integrated assessment modelling or other analytical techniques.
- Climate system effects of net-negative emissions. Assessment of the physical climate system feedback and response to net-negative emissions, the climate implications of impermanent removals, and climate impacts (ir)reversibility.
- CDR scenarios and temperature overshoot. Evaluation of the role and effectiveness of CDR approaches in net-zero and net-negative emissions scenarios, including levels of achievable CDR, residual emissions, and the implications for near-term decision-making.
- Pathways for CDR uptake. Potential mechanisms for enabling CDR deployment beyond carbon market systems including potential co-benefits, additionalities, and spillovers from other sectors and technologies.
- CDR interaction with broader mitigation strategies and adaptation. Analysis of synergies and trade-offs of negative emissions with levels of residual emissions, sectoral decarbonization, and adaptation strategies.
- Justice, ethics, and social perceptions of CDR. Considerations of different dimensions of CDR justice (distributive, procedural, informational, recognitional, interactional, etc.), ethics, and understanding of public attitudes towards CDR.
- Removal of non CO2 gases. Mechanisms for the removal of non-CO2 greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide.
About the ICC Program
The Integration of the planetary biogeochemical and industrial Carbon Cycle (ICC) Program is one of four strategic research programs within CMCC, focusing on understanding and shaping the new paradigm of building a net-zero carbon economy, which is essential to providing quantitative and narrative analyses of socio-economic systems in the context of a sustainable and resilient future.
About the UPTAKE project
UPTAKE is a research project, coordinated by the Foundation CMCC, that aims to develop resilient CDR strategies based on strengthened scientific evidence on the social, technological, economic, and environmental characteristics of CDR technologies and their interplay.
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101081521. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible.
For more information on the event and how to take part in it, visit the conference website