About the Zero Emission Network

Accelerating the deployment of CCUS throughout Europe 

CCUS ZEN enables knowledge sharing between different stakeholders and between European regions to support full chain development of CCUS.

By drawing on learnings from ongoing and past projects, CCUS ZEN aims to build a coherent ecosystem of CCUS actors capable of decarbonising Europe’s industry and delivering the European Union’s climate target plan. 

Industry Clusters

CCUS ZEN is exploring the potential for enabling CCUS value chain deployment in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea regions.

Knowledge Platform

Access a range of shared knowledge, experience and advice to help drive forward CCUS deployment in Europe.

CCUS in Europe

Find out how CCUS technology works, why Europe needs its rapid delivery and what progress has already been made.

Latest news & events

Webinar 3 - The social, economic, political, and legal dimensions of developing carbon management infrastructure in Europe

14:00 - 15:00 CEST

This webinar presented the non-technical challenges that Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) faces across social, economic, political and legal dimensions. Some of these are cross-cutting – for example, when it comes to public trust, regulation, MRV, and accounting, where the clarity of responsibilities and coordination through private contracts needs to be in place. The value-chain partners and regulatory entities involved need to find and operationalise common approaches.  

Map of Mediterranean CCUS value chain
Risk assessment workshop: Mediterranean CCUS value chain - July 2024

CCUS ZEN’s Work Package 4 (WP4) is looking at the development of CCUS value chains and local business models. 

CCUS ZEN at GHGT-17

The CCUS ZEN project had 4 abstracts accepted at the upcoming GHGT-17 Conference that will take place between the 20-24 October 2024, in Calgary, Canada. The project will be represented at the conference with the following:

Oral Presentations

  • A framework for regional high-level technical screening of promising CCUS value chains.
    Lothe, A., Gravaud, I, Ringstad, C., Falck da Silva, E., Skagestad, R., Shogenova, A., Shogenov, K., Sousa, L. Wójcicki, A., Sınayuç, Ç., Yıldırım, B., Anthonsen, K., Perimenis, A. (2024)