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Global Status of CCS 2025
The Global Status of CCS report is the Institute’s flagship assessment of carbon capture and storage worldwide. The 2025 edition, Staying the Course, charts real progress amid global uncertainty, showing how stronger policy, rising investment, and collaboration are keeping CCS on track toward gigatonne-scale deployment.
Staying the Course
2025 has seen major policy advancements in some regions and new uncertainties in others, yet the overall direction is clear: CCS is scaling up, supported by increasingly durable policy frameworks, rising private sector engagement, and expanding global infrastructure.
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Number of Projects Continues to Rise
The CCS project pipeline has continued its strong growth in 2025, marking another year of steady progress. Since the release of last year’s report, a record number of projects have advanced to the operational and construction phases. , with an additional .
Where There Is Policy, There Are Projects
Significant policy, legal, and regulatory progress for CCS over the past 12 months in many countries is driving growth in projects under operation, construction, and development. We are seeing clear links to expanding project pipelines where national policy frameworks have been established.
Capture Capacity Increases at Every Stage of Development
Planned global capacity has been growing at a compound annual rate of over 30% since 2017.
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Global Status of CCS report: Previous editions
Since 2015, the Global CCS Institute has been producing a comprehensive annual report on worldwide CCS progress. Read the earlier reports here.
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Global Status of CCS report: Other languages
The Global CCS Institute produces the annual Global Status of CCS report in several languages. View the other language versions here.
