Membership

Any organisation active in, interested in, or strategically engaged with the development and deployment of industrial carbon management in Europe can become a member of Carbon Management Europe.

Carbon Management Europe’s membership spans the full industrial carbon management value chain, including industrial and energy companies, technology and infrastructure providers, financial organisations, research institutions, academia, and civil society organisations. This diversity ensures balanced perspectives and well-informed, evidence-based contributions to Carbon Management Europe’s work.

Carbon Management Europe’s positions and outputs are developed through structured governance processes and expert working groups involving its members.

Members collectively discuss priorities, assess evidence, and contribute to draft outputs within Carbon Management Europe’s working groups and governance bodies. The five constituencies – energy companies, industrial companies, civil society organisations, academic and research organisations, and technology, infrastructure and finance – ensure that Carbon Management Europe’s outputs reflect a balanced, evidence-based consensus across the value chain.

Carbon Management Europe does not endorse or represent the individual positions of its members. All publications, policy contributions, and recommendations are jointly developed and agreed upon through Carbon Management Europe’s governance framework. Differing views are addressed transparently, potential conflicts of interest are managed through clear procedures, and all outputs are grounded in technical rigour and alignment with the European Union’s climate objectives.

Most CME members contribute financially to support the operation of the Secretariat and the delivery of CME’s activities, including policy engagement, technical analysis, and stakeholder coordination.

Academia, research organisations, and civil society organisations are exempt from membership fees. This approach ensures broad and inclusive participation while maintaining the resources needed for CME to operate effectively and independently.

Members contribute primarily through Carbon Management Europe’s Advisory Council and expert working groups.

Through regular meetings and structured collaboration, members inform strategic discussions, help define priorities, and co-develop reports, policy briefs, and recommendations addressed to EU institutions, national governments, and other stakeholders.

Carbon Management Europe’s work is steered by a Chair and five Vice-Chairs, who represent the different constituencies and ensure that a wide range of perspectives is reflected. Working group co-chairs provide subject-matter leadership on specific topics – policy, technology, finance, carbon dioxide removals – ensuring the quality of Carbon Management Europe’s outputs.

Non-members can engage with Carbon Management Europe in a limited and structured way.

Carbon Management Europe’s working groups and strategic governance meetings, where positions and outputs are developed, are reserved for members. To support openness and knowledge sharing, Carbon Management Europe also organises public webinars and events that are open to the wider carbon management community. Members and working group co-chairs help shape the agendas of these open activities.

Carbon Management Europe also collaborates with external organisations and institutions on events and knowledge-sharing initiatives. These partnerships are not contingent on membership, but only members contribute directly to the development and approval of Carbon Management Europe’s official outputs.