Porous carbon materials have achieved extraordinary success in a variety of environment and energy-related applications. The quest for efficient energy storage solutions has particularly fueled a significant interest in these materials, renowned for their customizable pore structures, high surface areas, and exceptional electrochemical properties. Among various possible synthetic strategies aimed at the preparation of porous carbon materials, the high-temperature carbonization method appears as a promising solution due to its low cost and simplicity accompanied by the ability to produce materials with tailorable and well-defined pore structures, superior thermal stability as well as excellent scalability and reproducibility. The range of precursors used for preparation of porous carbons using the high-temperature carbonization strategy involves a wide variety of materials such as natural and synthetic polymers, biomassderived materials, organic salts as well as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) derived from transition metals. The latter coordination networks are a structurally and compositionally diverse class of network solid which are amenable to crystal engineering by exploiting the interactions of metal centers (nodes) and organic ligands acting as linkers between these centers.