CCU: Dangerous distraction or essential for the energy transition?
Carbon capture and use can reduce, recycle or even remove emissions from the atmosphere, but its role in climate action depends on the carbon’s origin and destination.
Sonja van Renssen
@sonjavanrenssen
Managing editor Sonja van Renssen is an experienced Brussels-based journalist and conference moderator, who has written for leading energy and climate titles including S&P Global Platts and Nature Climate Change. She can be found on LinkedIn here.
Articles by Sonja van Renssen
The business case for CO2 removal in a net-zero world
The question is not whether trees, CCS and direct air capture are needed, but what will deliver carbon removal at scale.
2021: Turning net-zero pledges into tangible steps
In 2020, net-zero pledges fell thick and fast from policymakers and businesses alike. In 2021, those ambitious words need to be turned into concrete actions.
Net-zero ambitions revive CCS hopes in Europe
Carbon capture and storage will be essential for Europe to achieve climate neutrality, but it remains economically unviable.
EU chemicals industry: A carbon border tax will not save us
Two chemical industry heads give their views on how to make the sector part of the EU's energy transition.
Hydrogen is the next renewables story
A climate neutral energy system requires green hydrogen made from renewables to transport and store clean power, and take it into other sectors such as industry and transport. Europe is taking a lead, but climate campaigners caution that hydrogen must really be green and remain complementary to direct electrification.
From blue to green: hydrogen’s own energy transition
While the goal may be green hydrogen from renewable power, blue hydrogen from natural gas with carbon capture and storage will be a cheaper, faster way to reduce industrial emissions and build demand for clean hydrogen over the next ten years.
