Hydrogen boride (HB) sheets are metal-free two-dimensional materials comprising boron and hydrogen in a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio. In spite of the several advancements, the fundamental interactions between HB sheets and discrete molecules remain unclear. Here, we report the adsorption of CO<sub>2</sub> and its conversion to CH<sub>4</sub> and C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub> using hydrogen-deficient HB sheets. Although fresh HB sheets did not adsorb CO<sub>2</sub>, hydrogen-deficient HB sheets reproducibly physisorbed CO<sub>2</sub> at 297 K. The adsorption followed the Langmuir model with a saturation coverage of 2.4 × 10<sup>−4</sup> mol g<sup>−1</sup> and a heat of adsorption of approximately 20 kJ mol<sup>−1</sup>, which was supported by density functional theory calculations. When heated in a CO<sub>2</sub> atmosphere, hydrogen-deficient HB began reacting with CO<sub>2</sub> at 423 K. The detection of CH<sub>4</sub> and C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub> as CO<sub>2</sub> reaction products in a moist atmosphere indicated that hydrogen-deficient HB promotes C–C coupling and CO<sub>2</sub> conversion reactions. Our findings highlight the application potential of HB sheets as catalysts for CO<sub>2</sub> conversion.