About Us

We’re building the ecosystem for permanent carbon removals by connecting the people who can make it happen - innovators, investors, and policymakers. Together, we’re unlocking the climate, economic, and strategic benefits of durable carbon removal at scale.

About Us

Our Vision & Mission

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Women in CDR, Negative Emissions Summit 2025

NEP believes that by 2030, the world can have put itself on a path to achieve the mitigation of climate change by making realistic but radical commitments to reducing fossil fuel emissions in favour of sustainable forms of energy generation.

NEP knows that both “net zero” targets and any ambitions to reverse climate change can only succeed with a major contribution from technologically-enabled negative emissions solutions.

NEP’s vision is of a planet that, by 2050, has successfully broken its dependence on fossil fuels, generating vast amounts of renewable energy, and has deployed a wide array of negative emissions technology solutions on a massive scale, on all continents, and in a way that gives complete confidence in the credibility of measurement, accounting, and certification systems.

The Negative Emissions Platform exists in order to support and promote the contribution of technologically-enabled removals of atmospheric CO2 to the acceleration of global efforts to mitigate and reverse climate change.

Our Board

Meet the people guiding our mission and shaping the long-term vision to scale permanent carbon removals for a climate-neutral future.


  • Kemal Armada

    Kemal Armada

    President

    Born 1990 @ 354 ppm CO₂

    Head of Growth, Climeworks

  • Dirk Paessler

    Dirk Paessler

    Vice President &
    Co-Founder

    Born 1968 @ 321 ppm CO₂

    CEO & Founder, Carbon Drawdown Initiative GmbH

  • Jan Lohse

    Jan Lohse

    Board Member

    Born 1991 @ 354 ppm CO₂

    Head of Operations, reverce

  • Leila Toplic

    Leila Toplic

    Board Member

    Born 1976 @ 331 ppm CO₂

    Chief Communications & Trust Officer, Carbonfuture

  • Venna von Lepel

    Venna von Lepel

    Board Member

    Born 1979 @ 337 ppm CO₂

    Chief Carbon Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Novocarbo

  • Johan Börje

    Johan Börje

    Board Member

    Born 1963 @ 319 ppm CO₂

    Head of Market Policy & Development, Stockholm Exergi

  • Rafael Broze

    Rafael Broze

    Board Member

    Principal, Engineered Carbon Removals, Microsoft

Our Team

Meet the people who set our strategy and stay laser-focused on accelerating carbon removals for a climate neutral future.


  • Chris Sherwood

    Chris Sherwood

    Secretary-General

    Born 1974 @ 332 ppm CO₂

  • Elisabeth Harding

    Elisabeth Harding

    Policy Manager

    Born 1996 @ 362 ppm CO₂

  • Alina Toporas

    Alina Toporas

    Science Communications Manager

    Born 1993 @ 357 ppm CO₂

  • Atilla Yucel

    Atilla Yucel

    Financing Lead

    Born 1986 @ 348 ppm CO₂

  • Lambrini Margariti

    Lambrini Margariti

    Policy Officer

    Born 1997 @ 363 ppm CO₂

Become a Member

Ready to join us?

Membership in Negative Emissions Platform is open to a wide range of organisations (varying fees apply), providing they meet the following criteria:

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Full Support

They fully support the platform objectives.

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Market Participant

They are, or want to become active as a technology developer, retailer, distributor, promoter or sponsor or buyer.

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