The latest โState of the Energy Unionโ report will be presented by later today (9 September) by Green Deal Commissioner Maroลก ล efฤoviฤ. Ahead of its release, Euractiv polled industry associations, NGOs and think tanks to get their take on the state of …
G7 countries have only 10 years left to act on their commitment to reach net-zero emissions power systems.
Seventeen years ago the European Council made a commitment to construct up to twelve carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants by 2015. Heads of government agreed that greenhouse gas emissions could not be reduced to the extent needed witho…
BERLIN, May 29 (Reuters) – Germany’s cabinet approved on Wednesday a draft bill to allow carbon dioxide capture and storage for some industrial sectors as Europe’s biggest economy aims to become carbon neutral by 2045 while keeping heavy industries, go…
With real-world development lagging far behind the rhetoric of policy makers in Brussels, industry groups and big oil agree the EU needs a ‘CCS tsar’ to make the case for a climate solution that still attracts a lot of mistrust
An EU Industrial Carbon Management Strategy published alongside the 2040 EU emissions target recommendation holds great promise for CCUS. Not everyone is happy about that.
To reach the EU’s climate targets, increase industrial competitiveness, and improve its energy resilience, carbon capture and storage technologies play an important role.
As part of its decarbonisation efforts, in 2023 the European Commission releas…
Germanyโs upcoming carbon management strategy is being delayed by government divisions on carbon capture and storage (CCS), further exacerbated by a leaked EU climate policy draft for 2040 promoting the controversial technology.
A leaked European Commission paper on โindustrial carbon managementโ, to be published on 6 February, lays the groundwork for captured carbon dioxide to be โrecycledโ in chemical processes or used as maritime and jet fuel, while accounting for non-emitt…
The capture, storage and utilisation of CO2 requires the construction of pipelines and network planning to enable industry to access geological storage areas and synthetic fuel producers to access (renewable) CO2 sources, write Daan Peters and Kees van…
Some of Germanyโs most influential business and green lobbying groups have joined forces to urge Berlin to quickly adopt a carbon management strategy in order to kickstart the countryโs industrial transformation.
The EU is promising storage will eventually be available โย but manufacturers in Europeโs poorer regions are worried it wonโt be within reach.ย
As EU policymakers enter final negotiations on the Net-Zero Industry Act, they should secure ambitious provisions for CO2 storage. In particular, Article 18 must be safeguarded to ensure oil and gas producers are held accountable for developing carbon …
At the COP28 climate talks, Saudi Arabia is among the countries arguing carbon scrubbing technology can replace the need to eliminate fossil fuel use.
As ambition for Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) deployment ramps up across the world, we urgently need a new perspective on how society can be actively involved in the next steps, writes Dr. Moisรฉs Covarrubias.
The German Greens have adopted a European Parliament election programme which highlights the need for carbon capture and storage, a historic shift for the party.
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This week Europeโs hydrogen players are meeting in Brussels for the EU Hydrogen Week. Yara will present its solutions to decarbonize European industry through clean ammonia and announce the worldโs earliest transnational binding agreement on carbon cap…
Biden and Xi will probably skip it, but the summit will have Lula, the pope and King Charles. And yeah, Rishi Sunak.
Environmental groups are taking the UK government to court on Monday (13 November) over plans to spend billions on Biomass with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), a technology aimed at removing CO2 from the atmosphere that is also being promoted by th…
Instead of attacking and seeking to halt carbon capture and storage, journalists and environmental campaigners should be holding oil companies and countries to account, demanding that they deliver on their CCS commitments, writes Robin Mills.
For decades heavy industry around Dunkirk in northern France has belched out millions of tonnes of climate-heating gases.ย Now the area close to the Belgium border โ one of Europe’s industrial powerhouses โ wants to catch its pollution before it escapes…
The emerging CO2 storage market in Europe is becoming increasingly controlled by a North Sea monopoly, putting at risk the decarbonisation of Southern and Eastern Europe, write Eadbhard Pernot, Martin Birk Rasmussen and Lina Strandvรฅg Nagell.
Denmark and the Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday on the sidelines of the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg, pledging to cooperate on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and CO2 transport.
Europeโs net-zero goals will almost certainly not be achieved without significant deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, writes Chris Davies. Suggesting that use of CCS should be limited even before it has begun is hardly the best w…
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) can be deployed in limited cases to ensure e-fuels reach full climate neutrality, green group Transport & Environment has told Euractiv, responding to claims by e-fuel producers that 100% emissions reductions are no…
Upcoming EU legislation should limit the use of industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to truly unavoidable emissions, write Leon de Graaf, Dominika Floriรกnovรก, Antoine Grall and Ella Oksala.
Deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) needs to increase at least 100-fold by 2050 for the world to meet its net-zero emissions goals. The US and Norway illustrate how effective government policy can help achieve this, write Jarad Daniels and N…
LONDON โ An Australian billionaire says he may step back from investing in U.K. green technologies after the government announced new backing for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Andrew Forrest, an international investor and climate philanthropist, said U.K. government plans to put billions of pounds into CCS meant โputting Britainโs hopes [on] failed technology.โ [โฆ]
Spain, the current holder of the EU Council presidency, has been accused of undermining the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe following the circulation of a discussion paper that questions the EU’s approach.
World nations must agree to phase out unabated fossil fuels โno later than 2050โ and earlier if possible, says Steven Guilbeault โ with any residual oil and gas emissions mitigated thanks to carbon capture and storage technology, he told EURACTIV in an…
SNEAK PEEK โ The next phase of the Energy Bill is now expected after the summer, creating weeks of delay. โ The government goes to court over U.K. net zero plans (for a second time). โ The global cost if renewables manufacturing is short of essential minerals? $3 trillion. A very warm welcome to Fridayโs [โฆ]
The Danish government is investing billions of euros to establish the country as a hub for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe, a technology central to the EUโs 2050 net-zero climate plans.
