Unbound Directory: 
The 'Yellow Pages' of CDR

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 Carbon Dioxide Removal (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 and Policy, where she is committed to advancing public-private carbon removal initiatives across Europe and beyond. Previously, Quincy led CDR Policy at the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), where she promoted removal solutions in the U.S. and Europe through policy development and technical advisory services for CDR suppliers. In 2022, she served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), supporting the Carbon Management team 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. Her graduate research focused on designing policies to scale permanent carbon removal pathways and was supervised by Oxford Net Zero and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS).

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 am a University student who is a winner of the 2023 OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge for best Research Project. I passionate about Direct Air Capture and CDR. I am continuing to work on the team's initial device along with a business plan.

Frederic Clerc is the interim Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYC's longest-running innovation hub for climatetech startups. He also leads the Carbon to Value Initiative, an innovation program focused on supporting carbontech startups. In his past role with EnVertis, he worked with multinational corporations and governments to identify and evaluate low-carbon business models and technology opportunities, from pilot to commercial scale across various industries including forest-products, agriculture, chemicals and oil and gas in Canada, US, Brazil and Europe. Prior to that, Frederic managed large corporate transformation programs with BearingPoint, a leading European business and technology consultancy. He started his career as a product engineer with Assima, a growth-stage software startup. Frederic holds a Masters of Engineering in Energy and Sustainable Development from the Chemical Engineering department at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada (2016), as well as a graduate engineer degree from the National Institute of Applied Science in Rennes, France (2005).

Kita is the carbon insurance specialist. Our mission is to de-risk high-quality carbon projects to enable them to scale. James is a global sustainable finance, (re)insurance & climate risk executive with a career spanning Europe, Asia & the Americas. He is a UK-qualified attorney, management accountant, (re)insurance professional & CFA Charterholder.

Alexis is Senior Policy Analyst at Carbon Gap, where he focuses on expanding the Policy Tracker’s coverage. He joined Carbon Gap to contribute to the fight against climate change, being convinced that carbon dioxide removal constitutes a key, yet missing and often misunderstood, element of climate policy.