Carbon capture explained: how EU member states are funding and rolling out the technology to clean up Europe’s fossil fuel industry

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) underpins the European Union’s (EU) strategy to decarbonise industries such as cement, steel, and chemicals. It involves capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial facilities, transporting it by pipeline or shipping and storing it permanently in geological formations. According to the European Commission this technology that captures emissions at their source to prevent them from escaping into the atmosphere is a crucial part of the carbon phaseout pathways…