Letter on carbon: Beyond the current trajectory
Policymakers must match their rhetoric with bolder action if they really want CCUS to scale up to meaningful levels
Government support for CCUS and direct air capture (DAC) has arguably increased this year, at least in terms of rhetoric. Policymakers are keener than ever to highlight these technologies’ importance to long-term decarbonisation and the net-zero project. Some countries are expected to include CCUS in their submission of 2035 targets under their third Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), required under the Paris Agreement. Germany’s new government has signalled its readiness to help scale up CCS in Europe’s largest economy. In the US, the Trump administration has spared CCS from the cuts in subsidies to other transition technologies, partly because of its additional role in enhanced oi
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