Transport of CO2 to permanent storage: A missing piece in Europe’s industrial decarbonization plan

The document advocates for the inclusion of mobile CO2 transport modalities—such as ships, barges, rail, and trucks—within the TEN-T Regulation to reduce investor risk and ensure equitable access to carbon storage sites across the EU.

• Current EU support mechanisms for CO2 transport are imbalanced, as pipelines and storage projects can access funding and administrative support through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), while mobile modalities like ship, barge, rail, and truck are excluded.
• Mobile transport modalities are essential for ensuring equitable access to CO2 storage because storage sites are not equally distributed across EU Member States, and pipelines are often too expensive, timely, or physically impossible to construct for smaller emitters or those far from clusters.
• The current TEN-T proposal fails to mention the importance of multiple CO2 transport modalities or their role in decarbonizing the transport sector, which the author claims sends negative market signals and maintains high investor risk.
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) supports the broader energy transition by allowing industrial sectors like steel, cement, lime, and chemicals to decarbonize faster, which reduces the demand for renewables in industry and frees up low-carbon power for transport electrification and low-carbon hydrogen production.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (n.d.). Transport of CO2 to permanent storage: A missing piece in Europe’s industrial decarbonization plan. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/22111534/ten-t-fact-sheet.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Transport of CO2 to permanent storage: A missing piece in Europe’s industrial decarbonization plan. n.d. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/22111534/ten-t-fact-sheet.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cleanairtaskforcendtransport, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Transport of CO2 to permanent storage: A missing piece in Europe’s industrial decarbonization plan}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/22111534/ten-t-fact-sheet.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }