The transition towards a thriving green industry in Europe is a top priority of the S&D group. We believe that this transition will have to be based on a true European vision, founded upon regulatory stability and joint financing.
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 der Leun.
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 storage, writes Matteo Guidi.
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. Moisés Covarrubias.
It is hard to find many critics in Brussels of the EU’s new carbon levy that came into force in October. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is one of the few major pieces of law passed by Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission that secured cross-party support in the European Parliament.
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.
Too many countries have vetoes or taboos about clean energies, like nuclear or sustainable bioenergy. The fact is, we simply cannot afford to exclude any measures that can substantially help decarbonisation, argue Alan Finkel and Noé van Hulst.
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 Strandvåg Nagell.
Europe’s 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 way to solve the climate crisis, he argues.
Upcoming EU legislation should limit the use of industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to truly unavoidable emissions, write Leon de Graaf, Dominika Floriánová, 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 Nils Rokke.
The EU must develop an industrial strategy tailored to address the challenges faced by energy-intensive industries, write Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.
The European Commission has finally acknowledged the absence of carbon capture and storage (CCS) from its emissions-reduction strategy but much remains to be done, writes Chris Davies.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is America’s answer to the global call for strong policy action on the climate crisis. It includes almost $370 billion of incentives to reduce carbon emissions, including targeted support for carbon …
The current crisis represents a historic turning point for the energy system and even more for the future of European industry. Diversification in natural gas supplies as an alternative to Russian ones, renewed use of fossil fuels, a push towards renewables, and storage systems are just some of the topics on top of worldwide agendas.
Carbon capture and storage technologies have often been criticised as an excuse to avoid cutting CO2 emissions at the source. However, they are necessary to meet climate targets and Denmark aspires to be a European leader in this regard, writes Lars Aagaard ahead of a discussion between environment ministers on the subject.
“Electrifying everything” has become a key solution to tackling climate change, but for the cement industry — which relies heavily on fossil-fuel-generated industrial heat — the challenge is more complicated.
European industries have been severely affected by the energy crisis and are at a disadvantage against global competitors. To face the upcoming years, they will need strong support at the European and national levels, write Haris Doukas and Vlasios Oikonomou.
Hydrogen is here to stay. It is versatile, can be produced from almost all energy sources, and can improve energy security.
While individual net-zero targets and climate action are crucial, they won't be enough to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and reverse the biodiversity crisis, writes Giulia Carbone. Companies and financial institutions also need to set ambitious short-term science-based targets, she argues.
Green ammonia plays a prominent role in the 20 million tonne renewable hydrogen target of the European Commission’s REPowerEU plan. Now it’s time for the EU to put its money where its mouth is, writes Joel Moser.
Technologies to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the iron and steel industries already exists and are scalable. Policies and measures in the EU must therefore incentivise development in this direction and do so quickly, writes Henrik Henriksson.
The energy price and supply risks we are facing today are making the decarbonisation of the power sector by 2035 an even more significant challenge. But if we deviate the heading of our ship from the course for longer than necessary, we will lose the course we set for ourselves: cost-efficient power sector decarbonisation, writes Zsuzsanna Pató.
A flexible EU regulatory framework can help forward-thinking companies collaborate on projects that harness hydrogen’s potential across Europe.
