Untreated dossiers like hydrogen, nuclear energy, and carbon capture are piling up on the desks of absent ministers, as France remains without a government since the July elections. Industry fears this governmental paralysis puts the country’s energy a…
Are Labourโs ambitions for delivering clean energy an inspired example of ‘mission thinking’ โ or one more doomed big idea?
The partyโs leaders may soon have to decide whether to preserve at least parts of the Democratsโ climate law.
The Energy Secretary has made an eye-catching start. But how far is he prepared to rock the boat?
President Joe Biden may no longer be on the 2024 ballot โ but his legacy is. And former President Donald Trump would have multiple tools to thwart his ambitions on energy, infrastructure and climate change.
The Azerbaijani presidency made that claim while presenting a flurry of initiatives for the Baku summit.
As the UK races to meet ambitious climate targets, Equinorโs carbon capture solutions could revitalize industrial regions while dramatically reducing CO2 emissions.
A deep dive into what Keir Starmer’s government will tackle in their first 100 days and then in their first year.
During the European elections campaign, many political parties in Bulgaria and other countries in the EUโs east attacked the European Green Deal. But when several hundred stakeholders gathered at a Green Transition Forum in Sofia, their message was tha…
G7 countries have only 10 years left to act on their commitment to reach net-zero emissions power systems.
Whatever the election result, the next generation of carbon capture, BECCS, must be at the heart of the next governmentโs plan for ensuring a secure and decarbonised UK energy system.
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…
Absolutely everything you need to know about what the opposition party is promising ahead of the July 4 election.
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…
Policymakers and industryโs love for green hydrogen – has cooled in recent months. Teething problems have made clear that this new industry is incapable of scaling up overnight
The mandate of the next European Commission is a make-or-break period for the large-scale deployment of carbon capture projects in Europe. Without these technologies, the EU can forget about achieving its climate targets for 2040 and 2050.ย Joop Hazenb…
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
Canadian taxpayers covered 93 per cent of the costs of the Quest carbon capture project, a Greenpeace report reveals.
Success of Rotterdam project would help assuage concerns over CCS technology
Europe is heading into a new chapter of climate policy, paving the way for negative emissions also from the bioenergy sector, Renew Europe lawmaker Emma Wiesner told Euractiv in an interview.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies are crucial for Europe to achieve its climate targets for 2040 and 2050. CCUS solutions can also enhance industrial competitiveness and bolster energy resilience.
7000 annual air pollution deaths, 10,000 km2 of acidified water and 150,000 km2 of algae blooms. These are just some of the extra impacts by 2040, if the Commission does not manage to curb agricultureโs environmental impact.
Environmentally minded Tories fear losing influence after the general election.
Germany will change its CO2 storage law to facilitate gas transport and is eyeing carbon capture in industry and the power sector while taking steps to become an emission-negative country past 2050.
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…
UK opposition party’s pledge to spend ยฃ28 billion a year on a cleaner economy ditched after months of dithering.
To speed things up, the EU Commission aims to create an EU-wide “investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites” to help investors find “bankable CO2 storage capacities”
The European Commission presented its recommendations for the EUโs 2040 climate target on Tuesday (6 February), arguing for a 90% cut in emissions compared to 1990, and paving the way for carbon capture technology to abate remaining emissions from indu…
The European Commission is expected to back a 90 percent net cut to emissions by 2040, but it likely to include what some have called an “implausibly large amounts of carbon capture” as a solution.
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.
CO2 Value Europe launches a first-of-a-kind quantitative assessment of the contribution of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) towards climate neutrality in the EU. By 2050, at least 20% of GHG reduction from technologies will come from CCU.
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) published a new report on Thursday (18 January) analysing the main gaps in the EUโs post-2030 climate policy, with renewable energies and carbon capture identified as the most pressing i…
The EU is promising storage will eventually be available โย but manufacturers in Europeโs poorer regions are worried it wonโt be within reach.ย
Future negotiations should focus more on reshaping incentives for oil and gas producing countries, and less on fulminating at their villainy.
A massive investment plan designed to help fight climate change is at risk of being beheaded.
The contradictions in nationsโ attitudes toward fossil fuels were at the forefront of the talks in Dubai.
France will give the green light to new investments in nuclear fusion, natural hydrogen, energy storage and carbon capture, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday (11 December).
GOP lawmakers came to the U.N. climate summit to promote a vision that champions U.S. fossil fuels and nuclear energy while acknowledging the need to cut carbon. Itโs unclear how much that will matter if the former president regains the White House.
Sultan al-Jaber, the climate summit president and oil CEO, must help ‘identify how we can open this pathway,’ EU representative Teresa Ribera tells POLITICO.
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.
โMaybe it came out the wrong way,โ Kerry told POLITICO after a report showed Sultan al-Jaber saying there was โno scienceโ backing a push to phase out fossil fuels.
Over-relying on carbon capture technologies at this year’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai could have a โฌ27 trillion price tag, Oxford researchers find.
Researchers injected a sobering finding into global climate negotiations Sunday by saying the world will likely fail its most important warming test.
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UK prime minister, who has eased climate targets at home, is making a flying visit to the Dubai. He insists he’s still got a strong green message to sell.
UAE officials running the talks are warning it may be impractical to call for the complete death of fossil fuels โย infuriating activists and vulnerable countries.
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.
Here’s why carbon capture is no easy solution to climate change.
King Charles III, David Cameron and Rishi Sunak will be jostling for prominence at the annual climate summit in Dubai.
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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.
Price spikes driven by the war in Ukraine are helping fill the petroleum giantsโ coffers, despite governmentsโ promises of a greener era.
Next weekโs vote on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is a risky moment for Europeโs green future and circular economy.
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.
To help prevent greenwashing, the European Parliamentโs environment committee agreed new rules last week on the certification framework for carbon removals – a move it says will boost the EUโs capacity to quantify, monitor and verify carbon capture.
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…
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.
Two new climate commissioners pledged to ‘defend’ the goal of 90 percent emission cuts by 2040 this week.
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…
Bloc countries divided on upgrading climate change targets
Frans Timmermans dives back into Dutch politics at a crucial time for climate action.
The UK Conservatives spy an opening by bashing environment policy โ while still promising to cut carbon emissions.
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]
