The Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes an array of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
Energy systems are rapidly transforming to meet changing energy demands and environmental and health priorities. The 21st century will require a robust carbon management infrastructure that integrates capture, transport, storage, and utilization into a coherent and scalable system embedded within global energy and industrial networks. This conference focuses on the scientific foundations necessary to build that infrastructure.The meeting will emphasize that breakthrough materials and chemistries, while essential, are only one component of success. Advances in sorbents, solvents, membranes, catalysts, mineralization pathways, and electrochemical systems must be coupled with process design, systems optimization, geologic understanding, lifecycle assessment, and techno-economic analysis. Scientific discovery must translate into gigaton-scale deployment. The central challenge is therefore not only to invent better materials, but to understand how those molecules perform within integrated processes, how those processes interact with energy systems, and how the resulting carbon flows can be measured, verified, and governed over decades.Carbon management requires a systems approach. A defining premise of the conference is that capture, storage, and utilization cannot evolve in isolation. Capture without durable storage lacks permanence; utilization without systems integration lacks scale; storage without societal trust and transparent accounting lacks legitimacy. The future of carbon management depends on coordinated development across disciplines, sectors, and geographies. We therefore aim to foster dialogue between chemists, materials scientists, geoscientists, chemical and systems engineers, economists, policy scholars, and industry leaders.The program will highlight frontier research—from molecular-level understanding of physical/chemical phenomena and reaction mechanisms to basin-scale storage integrity and monitoring, from AI-enabled materials discovery to integrated assessment modeling. At the same time, it will address broader societal dimensions: infrastructure financing, public acceptance, carbon markets, regulatory frameworks, and global equity in deployment. Carbon management is not solely a technical challenge; it is a systems challenge that spans science, engineering, economics, and governance.Looking beyond 2050, the conference embraces a forward-looking vision in which carbon flows are deliberately designed, monitored, and optimized across sectors and generations. By grounding ambitious deployment goals in rigorous science and integrated systems thinking, this meeting aims to create the community of practice and expertise that will underpin a resilient, credible, and scalable carbon management infrastructure for the century ahead.
