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15 February 2024
CCUS: turning an old technology into an evergreen
While a major part of the EU’s legwork towards net zero by 2050 is reducing current
emissions levels, industrial carbon capture capacity must rise significantly to help the Union
meet its objective. According to the European Commission’s newly released communication
titled 'Towards an ambitious Industrial Carbon Management for the EU', the continent is now
setting out the framework for the ambition to build an internal market for CO₂, benefiting both
the climate and future employment.
Highlighted as a pioneer in the field, Denmark is named amongst the countries set to inspire
the continent’s progress.
The Danish ecosystem has unique conditions for capturing, utilising, and storing CO₂. The
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) calculates that the Danish subsoil can
contain up to 22 billion tonnes of CO₂. This corresponds to between 500 and 1000 years of
total Danish emissions at the current level - more than enough for other countries to exploit as
well. Less than a year ago, the Danish Government proposed a national plan for Carbon
Capture and Storage (CCS), investing billions of euros to establish the country as a hub for
new projects.
CCS is neither an unknown nor untested technology. On the contrary, for well over 100 years,
technologies that can capture CO₂ have been used. Since the 1920s, the air has been purified
of CO₂ in submarines and since the 1960s in spacecraft. By utilising the captured CO₂ (CCU)
– combining it with green hydrogen – e-methanol and e-kerosene can be made for fuelling our
heavy industry, maritime fleets and aviation. Green hydrogen can be made with clean power
from wind turbines through the electrolysis of water.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Danish Climate Council
point to CCUS as an important means of fulfilling the Paris Agreement. Both because it can
help decarbonise hard-to-electrify emissions, and because it can remove CO₂ from the
atmosphere through the capture and storage of biogenic CO₂.
Through 50 years of working across professional boundaries, Denmark has learnt that
effective sector integration requires a pragmatic approach and an experimental
mindset. Pointing towards why Denmark is geared to reap the benefits and drive the transition
across the global CCUS value chain, we hope you find inspiration in our white paper looking
at how to pick the high-handing fruits of large-scale CO₂ mitigation.
Magnus Højberg Mernild
Editor, State of Green Weekly
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