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Public sentiment and acceptance of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technology are crucial for its adoption and the overall approach to climate action. Various factors, including the negative perceptions held by environmental advocacy groups, significantly influence public opinion. These groups often view CCUS as unsafe, untested, and a hindrance to the energy transition, potentially jeopardizing the global net zero goals set by the Paris Agreement.

Recently, however, there has been a shift in public opinion. The ongoing energy crisis, rising energy costs, and the visible challenges of achieving the Paris Agreement’s goals have led to a reluctant but growing acceptance of CCUS. However, communication between different stakeholders seems to not exist, as they often have different views on how decarbonization and the Paris Agreement’s goals should be achieved, and which technologies are more ‘legit’ than others.

In this roundtable, various stakeholders with (opposing) views are gathered together, intending to find common ground to move forward with the development and deployment of CCUS technologies and their role in decarbonisation models and in achieving climate neutrality.

Draft Agenda