• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Julio Friedmann

Carbon Direct

Chief Scientist

Dr. Julio Friedmann is Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct. He works directly with clients, the Science team, and the leadership of Carbon Direct to solve major technical challenges around carbon management and CO2 removal. Dr. Friedmann recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy at the Department of Energy where he was responsible for DOE’s R&D program in advanced fossil energy systems, carbon capture, and storage (CCS), CO2 utilization, and clean coal deployment. More recently, he was a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia. He has held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including Chief Energy Technologist. Dr. Friedmann is one of the most widely known and authoritative experts in the U.S. on carbon removal (CO2 drawdown from the air and oceans), CO2 conversion and use (carbon-to-value), hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, and carbon capture and sequestration.

Sessions With Julio Friedmann

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 05:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 06:00 pm

    How Do BECCS & BiCRS Measure up on Carbon Impact?
    Clean Tech

    Biomass applications for energy production with CCS or as part of a carbon removal process offer significant potential for reaching net-zero goals. Yet both attract scrutiny due to their land use and carbon credentials, and they have yet to take off globally on a large scale. What are the technical issues behind this controversy? Which applications of BECCs and BiCRS can be most quickly implemented and at scale? Which regions offer the greatest potential for growth in the next few years?