Press releases

The story of CCU moves on and there were several interesting and crucial steps made in the last years. Carbon capture and Utilisation is much more than just a CO₂ removal technology, it is one of the three pillars to move forward to a sustainable and defossilized chemical industry for the future.
70% from the greenhouse gas emissions come from additional fossil carbon used for energy and material uses. For the energy sector there is a good strategy for decarbonisation with renewable energies, but this will not work for chemicals and materials, because most of them are based on carbon (just like humans) and there is a lasting and even increasing need for carbon for these chemicals and materials. The key challenge is to cover the demand for carbon by alternative carbon sources. For the first time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its 6th assessment report released in 2022 (IPCC 2022), recognises CCU as one of the solutions to mitigate climate change.
Several future scenarios for a net-zero chemical industry in 2050 show that between 10 and 30 % of the demand for embedded carbon in chemicals and materials will come from the utilisation of CO₂.