Climate Scientist at Supercritical, specializing in biochar and engineered carbon removal technologies. Managed the UKRI GGR-D Biochar Demonstrator at the University of Nottingham, leading the UK’s largest biochar field trials to evaluate its potential for carbon sequestration and soil health improvement. Worked in environmental consulting, with a focus on waste management, including Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and carbon mineralization. EngD in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energies from the University of Nottingham, researching post-combustion capture sorbents.
Arca captures atmospheric carbon dioxide and stores it safely and permanently as rock, working in partnership with the mining industry. Arca launched its first commercial pilot project in November 2023 in partnership with one of the World’s largest mining companies, BHP As Head of External Affairs for Arca, I sit on the Leadership Team and am responsible for connecting Arca to the external CDR ecosystem, government relations, non-dilutive fundraising, marketing and communications and community and Indigenous relations. I have spent a lot of my life working on scaling humanitarian aid.
Consultant advancing innovative, scalable climate solutions, specializing in carbon storage, low carbon concrete, enhanced weathering, sustainable fuels, and related policy. Change-maker, advocate, researcher, and programmer. Polymath and lifelong learner with MS degrees in carbon management and computer science, trained in machine learning for climate. 14 years in campus sustainability and energy, 7 in small business, and 7 at startups, including 5 managing and 6 coaching. I bring grit in spades.
Background at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking London/UK (incl. Co-Head Equity Capital Markets Germany/Austria/Switzerland) assisting corporates with advice/execution from pre-IPO to listing stage around all equity-related products (IPO, primary/secondary equity round, convertibles/exchangeables) but also IR (from how to target new investors to how to defend from hostile investors). Investor in public equity but also start-Ups and VCs incl. advising on capital funding rounds (in various Climate Transition verticals). Current Member of the Advisory Council of a Swiss family office covering Equity Capital Markets, Macro Strategy and some day-to-day management of Direct Investments (early stage) in the area of Climate Impact (incl. Removal Carbon Credits).
Yard Stick provides low-cost, scientifically-rigorous quantification of soil carbon stocks. Our mission is to enable gigaton-scale soil carbon removal and storage via scalable, trustworthy measurement solutions. We are the measurement backbone of soil carbon. Our flagship hardware is an instant, in situ soil carbon measurement probe for field evaluation of soil carbon stocks and changes at up to one meter depth. This handheld device, based on two decades of soil spectroscopy research, eliminates laborious and costly conventional soil sampling and labs, thereby profoundly reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement.
I bring 15+ years of experience in corporate sustainability, climate startups and as an external consulting, including 8.5+ at Shopify. I've developed climate, sustainability and social impact strategies for global organizations, built and led cross-geography teams, and executed programs that are grounded in impact. At Shopify, I built Sustainability Fund programs, including working with ~30 CDR suppliers globally, leading carbon accounting and reporting, writing and championing integrated sustainability reports and standalone climate reports, leading the development of Shopify's Planet app, and more. I am focused on connecting with buyers interested in supporting a novel combination of biomass burial + reforestation projects. Broadly, I'm interested in market shaping efforts that accelerate the CDR ecosystem.
Quincy Childs is a dedicated advocate for deep decarbonization and CO2 drawdown, specializing in the creation of fit-for-purpose policies, high-quality projects, strategic partnerships, and credible carbon markets. As the Sourcing and Partnership Manager at Climeworks, she is focused on expanding the Climeworks Solutions business by securing CDR supply partnerships from various pathways to enhance the organization’s portfolio offering. In addition to her role at Climeworks, Quincy collaborates with Carbon Gap on Transatlantic Partnerships, where she is committed to advancing public-private carbon removal initiatives across Europe and beyond. Previously, Quincy led CDR Policy at CATF, where she promoted removal solutions in the U.S. and Europe through policy development and provided technical advisory services to CDR suppliers. In 2022, she served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), supporting FECM in strategic engagement to advance CDR research, development, deployment, and regulatory expertise on both domestic and international fronts. Quincy holds an MSc in Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford, where she researched policy design to scale permanent carbon removal pathways. Her research was supervised by Oxford Net Zero and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS).