British Columbia’s emerging carbon management sector will be in focus this summer as industry leaders gather in Vancouver for Carbon Connect: Building the Silicon Valley of Carbon in BC.
Taking place during PNW Climate Week, the July 16 event will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers, and climate technology leaders working across carbon capture, carbon removal, and carbon management.
The gathering comes as B.C.’s Lower Mainland continues to build momentum as a hub for companies developing technologies to manage CO₂ emissions. With local companies working on everything from carbon capture filters to permanent carbon mineralization, organizers are framing the region as a potential global centre for carbon management innovation.
The event is being hosted by the Centre for Climate and Business Solutions at UBC Sauder School of Business, PNW Climate Week, and a group of climate and carbon management leaders. Co-hosts include Arca Climate, Svante, UBC Sauder’s Centre for Climate and Business Solutions, and NorthX Climate Tech.
For CleanEnergy.ca readers, Carbon Connect reflects a broader theme taking shape across British Columbia: climate technology is increasingly being viewed not only as a tool for reducing emissions, but also as a major economic development opportunity.
Vancouver-based Arca Climate is working to turn industrial mining waste into permanent carbon storage through mineralization, while Burnaby-based Svante has emerged as one of Canada’s most prominent carbon capture companies through its filter-based technology. NorthX Climate Tech, a B.C.-based non-profit investor and catalyst for climate hard tech innovation, is also helping support the province’s climate innovation ecosystem.
Carbon capture, storage, and removal technologies continue to attract attention from governments, investors, industrial companies, and climate-focused entrepreneurs. In B.C., that interest is increasingly being tied to the opportunity to build a connected carbon management cluster capable of developing and exporting solutions.
The central question behind the event is an ambitious one: can B.C. become the Silicon Valley of carbon?
With a growing base of companies, research expertise, climate capital, and industrial opportunity, Carbon Connect aims to bring more of the province’s carbon management ecosystem into the same room.