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Initial review of 2030 White Paper

The European Commission has recently presented its much anticipated White Paper on the EU’s 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy Policies (read more here). Although it includes strong wording on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS), the EU executive has scaled back its climate ambitions dramatically in the name of “cost-effective” decarbonisation. Proposed measures include an […]
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Climate change

EU 2030 framework poised to propel CCS

The European Commission today presented its much anticipated White Paper on the EU’s 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy Policies (read more here). Although it includes strong wording on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS), the EU executive has scaled back its ambitions dramatically in the name of “cost-effective” decarbonisation. Proposed measures include an unambitious greenhouse […]
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Norwegian leaders called to parliamentary hearing on Mongstad debacle

The CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) Test Centre at Mongstad in Norway (TC Mongstad) was intended to eventually become a full-scale CCS demonstration site. Since the announcement in the autumn of 2013 that these plans would be scrapped, project initiators and managers have faced fierce criticism. Although the new Norwegian government has confirmed that TC Mongstad […]
European Community
Climate change

European Parliament’s 2030 committee report endorses CCS

On January 9th 2014 the European Parliament’s joint committee meeting of the Industry Research and Energy (ITRE) and Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) committees passed a draft report on the EU’s 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. A compromise amendment acknowledging the centrality of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) was included. The […]