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 4 flyer
CCUS ZEN Framework for Selection of Prospective CCUS Value Chains and Developing Project of Common Interests (PCI)

The main objectives of the study is to identify the most promising CCUS value chains in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions based on SWOT analysis and to establish a generic framework for the selection of the most prospective CCUS value chains, based on the high-level screening methodology presented in WP1 (Gravaud, 2024) and integrated with analyses of nontechnical parameters studied by WP2 (Honegger et al, 2024 ).

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:

 

 

 

 

 

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.