Chris Davies, director of Carbon Capture & Storage Europe (CCS Europe), is making a rallying cry to promote extensive carbon capture and storage deployment ahead of the EU’s appointment of its Commissioners.

While acknowledging the Commission's ambition of 50mt of annual CO2 storage capacity within the Union by 2030, Davies writes that much more needs to be done. Noting encouragement that the first Final Investment Decision (FID) for construction within the Union of a full-chain CCS project was taken, Davies remarks that “construction of not one full-chain CCS project has commenced within the Union so far this year. There is a real danger that progress on the scale required has stalled. A huge amount of work is taking place to develop projects, but unless FIDs are taken the Commission’s 2040 ‘indispensable’ target becomes more difficult to achieve with every passing month.”

Davies is also calling on the new Commission to appoint a carbon capture envoy.

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