2024

Accelerated Carbon Capture and Storage in Europe

CATF’s carbon capture and storage leadership helped advance major milestones in Europe in 2024. The European Commission published its Industrial Carbon Management Strategy, which outlined next steps for deploying new, bold carbon management strategies across Europe and included a number of our core priorities.  

As the first NGO to call on the Commission to release such a strategy over two years ago with our flagship report, A Policy Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage in Europe, CATF has long been the leading voice in Brussels, building a coalition of NGOs across Europe to call for an EU CCS strategy. CATF was also tapped by the Commission to draft A Vision for Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage in the EU based on input from hundreds of stakeholders across Europe. The Industrial Carbon Management Strategy caps the success of CATF’s work over the past three years by pushing policymakers to now recognize the need for carbon management as part of the EU’s pathway to a net-zero future and to develop a comprehensive vision to achieve it.  

The EU also reached an agreement on its landmark Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) — which will now legally require the bloc to reach an annual 50 Mt CO2 injection capacity by 2030, oil and gas producers to develop projects to deliver on this target, and a comprehensive effort to develop the CO2 transport infrastructure (including cross-border infrastructure) necessary to meet these goals. Each of these key pillars, among others, were called for by CATF and mark the culmination of a successful advocacy strategy.