Organized by GPS Renewables — A One-Day Technical Roundtable

Boring Deeper

How India can make carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) work at scale
The Boring Climate Conference 2026
28 March 2026
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10am – 3:30pm
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Taj MG Road, Bangalore

Boring Deeper — How India can make Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage work at scale

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The ₹20,000-Crore CCUS Moment

The Union Budget 2026-27 allocates ₹20,000 crore to advance CCUS technologies in heavy industries, creating an unprecedented opportunity for India’s climate and industrial future.

₹20,000 Cr
Budget Allocation
Dedicated CCUS Mission funding to drive deployment across power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals.
750 MTPA
Capture Target by 2050
The DST’s CCUS R&D Roadmap outlines a phased scale-up with 600 Gt of mapped geological storage potential.
~500
Regulated Entities
GEI targets are now legally binding, creating compliance pressure and driving demand for CCUS solutions across industries.
5
Priority Sectors
Power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals — the high-emitting sectors where CCUS will be transformative.

Three Developments That
Make This the Right Moment

01
Regulation
India’s GEI targets are now legally binding for ~500 industrial entities, creating real compliance pressure and demand for CCUS.
02
Funding
Budget 2026 announced a ₹20,000 crore CCUS Mission, signalling a definitive shift from research to deployment.
03
Roadmap
The GoI’s DST published a detailed CCUS R&D Roadmap in December 2025, targeting 750 MTPA of capture capacity by 2050.

Confirmed Speakers

India’s leading researchers on CCUS — including members of the High-Level Task Force that formulated India’s CCUS R&D Roadmap — joined by a deep-tech climate investor.

Day’s Agenda

28 March 2026  ·  Taj MG Road, Bangalore  ·  10am – 3:30pm

10:00
Opening Remarks
Mainak Chakraborty — Founder & CEO, GPS Renewables
India has a published CCUS roadmap, running pilots, and researchers and industry at the frontier. What will scale, what would it actually take? Gaps and opportunities.
10 min
10:10
Fireside Chat
Research, Industry, Enterprise: An Honest Conversation on India’s CCUS Moment
Dr Ashish Lele & Dr Anjan Ray — interviewed by Mainak Chakraborty  ·  + Q&A (15 min)
India published its CCUS R&D Roadmap in December 2025. The harder question is what comes next — and who is responsible for making it real. Dr Ashish Lele, who chaired the task force that wrote it, and Dr Anjan Ray, who has spent years in R&D, corporate strategy, M&A, and energy transition across the chemical and petroleum sectors, join GPS Renewables founder Mainak for a conversation on where CCUS is now, what needs to be built, and how best India can scale these pathways.
80 min
11:30
Coffee Break
15 min
11:45
Roundtable
From Molecule to Market: What It Takes to Scale CCUS in India
+ Q&A (15 min)  ·  Moderated by Prof. Sebastian C. Peter (JNCASR / HTF / Breathe)
Research Profs. Vivek Polshettiwar, Chinmoy Ranjan, Rajnish Kumar
Industry Sushma Rawat, Lovish Ahuja
Investment Ashish Goel, Vishnu Rajeev
India’s CCUS R&D Roadmap is published, the Budget commitment is made, and the science is advancing. What’s missing is the conversation between the people who build it, the industries that must adopt it, and the capital that has to fund it.
90 min
13:30
Lunch, Networking & Press Interactions
onwards

India’s CCUS Phased Scale-Up

Now — 2030
Lab-to-pilot acceleration & early large-scale projects
2030s
Commercial demonstrations & storage certification
By 2050
750 MTPA capture capacity at full scale

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