Document: Denmark wants EU to produce CO2 transport plan by 2025

By Federica Di Sario | 06/10/2024 06:27 AM EDT

Denmark, an EU carbon capture leader, insists the technology’s development should be market-driven but guided by an EU framework.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission must release a plan to transport trapped carbon “as soon as possible and preferably in 2025,” Denmark argued in a position paper obtained by POLITICO.

The EU is aiming to store at least 50 million tons of CO2 by 2030 — a process that will involve creating an extensive infrastructure system to capture carbon and move it to storage facilities. The effort will only succeed, Denmark said, if the EU creates a robust carbon pipeline network.

“Without transport,” the paper read, “there is no value chain.”

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Denmark’s push comes after the EU released an “industrial carbon management” strategy earlier this year. The plan described how the EU could help create a market to bolster carbon capture technologies, which prevent carbon emissions from reaching the atmosphere.

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