Policy TEN-E Revision: Geologic storage inclusion is a must for climate neutrality

The Clean Air Task Force asserts that the EU's draft TEN-E regulation neglects geologic storage, which is essential for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors and achieving negative emissions. The author calls for the regulation to cover the full carbon capture and storage value chain, including various transport modes like ships and trucks, and to ensure non-discriminatory third-party access to infrastructure.

• The European Commission's draft revision of the TEN-E regulation fails to include geologic storage as a necessary component of the carbon capture removal and storage value chain, despite its importance for reaching climate neutrality.
• Carbon capture removal and storage technologies are essential for decarbonizing industrial sectors such as steel and cement, facilitating the transition to a hydrogen economy, and achieving negative emissions by removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
• Europe has an estimated storage capacity of nearly 500 Gt, which exceeds 100 years of current total emissions, though this capacity is not evenly distributed across all countries.
• To achieve net-zero emissions and reduce costs, the TEN-E regulation should be amended to include the full infrastructure value chain, support multiple transport modalities beyond pipelines (including ships, trucks, and trains), and regulate non-discriminatory third-party access to networks.

APA

Beck, L. (2021). Policy TEN-E Revision: Geologic storage inclusion is a must for climate neutrality. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2021/01/eu-ten-e-revision-geologic-storage-climate-neutrality/

Chicago

Beck, Lee. Policy TEN-E Revision: Geologic storage inclusion is a must for climate neutrality. Clean Air Task Force, 2021. https://www.catf.us/2021/01/eu-ten-e-revision-geologic-storage-climate-neutrality/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{beck2021policy, author = {Beck, Lee}, title = {{Policy TEN-E Revision: Geologic storage inclusion is a must for climate neutrality}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2021}, month = jan, url = {https://www.catf.us/2021/01/eu-ten-e-revision-geologic-storage-climate-neutrality/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }