Distinguished Lecturer Technical Sundowner October 2026

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a much needed CO2 mitigation technology and it also has an interesting history in global climate and environmental policy and law. Now with engineered-Carbon Dioxide Removal (eCDR), it is still an active topic. Tim will provide an up-to-date summary of CCS in the global climate scene and in international environmental law, including the outputs from the latest UNFCCC COP meetings and carbon markets.
Bio: Tim Dixon is the Director and General Manager of IEAGHG, an international research organisation focussing on carbon capture and storage (CCS) funded by 39 countries and companies. He is responsible for IEAGHG delivering the evidence base on CCS to its members and wider stakeholders, and for international knowledge sharing through the largest CCS conference series, the GHGT conferences, and numerous workshops. Tim has extensive experience representing CCS in UNFCCC and other international agreements since 2004. Outside IEAGHG, Tim is an IPCC Lead Author on the CDR and CCUS Methodology Report (2027), a Director on the Board for The International CCS Knowledge Centre (Canada) since 2016, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin (USA) since 2014, an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (UK) since 2014, an original Board Member of the UK CCS Research Centre (2012-2014), and chairs or sits on advisory committees for various CCS projects and programmes around the world.

Prior to IEAGHG, Tim worked on CCS and clean energy technologies for the UK government and for AEA Technology (UK). Tim has been active in UNFCCC meetings since 1999, representing CCS since 2005. He was the EU’s Lead Negotiator on CCS in the UNFCCC, getting CCS adopted into the Clean Development Mechanism at COP-17 after five years of effort. He was a UK negotiator for getting CCS allowed in the London Convention (2004-7), in OSPAR (2006-7), the EU CCS Directive (2006-8), and the EU ETS (2006-9). Tim has also worked for the Global CCS Institute in Canberra and Curtin University in Perth (Australia). Tim has a BSc in Applied Physics and an MBA, is a Fellow of the Energy Institute (UK), and a member of the Institute of Physics and the UK Environmental Law Association.