Carbon Removal Gets Its Own Stage at the World's Biggest Energy Conference
Five years ago, carbon removal at CERAWeek would have been a hallway conversation between three people and a potted plant. This week, it has its own Innovation Agora track. When the world’s largest energy conference — 8,000+ attendees, every major oil company, every energy minister who matters — gives CDR dedicated stage time, something has shifted. CERAWeek 2026 runs March 23-27 in Houston. Among the speakers at the #CWAgora: Jessica Hinojosa, Senior Carbon Removal Program Manager at Microsoft. She joined Microsoft from Shell in September 2024, which is itself a telling career arc — from one of the world’s largest oil companies to one of the world’s largest CDR buyers. That pipeline of talent moving from fossil energy into carbon removal is becoming a pattern, not an anomaly. ...