This study showed that the incorporation of CO2 into sugar was needed and had a significant impact for the production of succinate. In the absence of CO2, final succinate concentration from OPF juice was only 5 g/L. However, with the optimum carbonate loading of 400 mmol/L (from current study) final succinate can increase up four times than without carbonate loading. Every ton of bio-succinic acid produced required 372 kg of CO2. The fermentation of succinate from OPF juice as a downstream process could be an alternative for sequestering CO2 emission from CO2-producing biofuel industries and further lowered the carbon footprint of these industries. Nevertheless, producing biofuel and biobased chemicals from oil palm biomass will offer increased wealth and open up new and better jobs.