
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
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.
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Kemal Armada
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Dirk Paessler
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Jan Lohse
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Leila Toplic
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Venna von Lepel
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Johan Börje
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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.
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Chris Sherwood
Secretary-General
Born 1974 @ 332 ppm CO₂
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Elisabeth Harding
Policy Manager
Born 1996 @ 362 ppm CO₂
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Alina Toporas
Science Communications Manager
Born 1993 @ 357 ppm CO₂
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Atilla Yucel
Financing Lead
Born 1986 @ 348 ppm CO₂
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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:
Full Support
They fully support the platform objectives.
Market Participant
They are, or want to become active as a technology developer, retailer, distributor, promoter or sponsor or buyer.