Released alongside State of the Art: CCS Technologies 2025, Editor’s Insights distils contributions from over 80 technology providers to highlight key trends in energy use, target industries, and technology readiness - offering a concise overview of the latest developments shaping the global CCS technology landscape.

Explore “State of the Art: CCS Technologies 2025” - the Institute’s annual showcase of over 160 CCS solutions from 80+ companies. The report highlights global innovations across capture, transport, and storage, illustrating how cutting-edge technologies are driving real-world progress toward a net-zero future.

Rapid CCS scale-up depends on effective risk management, with insurance playing an increasingly vital role. Coverage options for CO₂ storage are expanding, including products designed to address and protect against carbon credit and tax credit reversals, supporting project deployment and investor confidence.

CCS is accelerating globally, with policy and emissions trading schemes (ETS) driving deployment. This report compares five ETS frameworks, examines CCS and carbon removal treatment, explores supportive policy designs, and assesses evolving approaches to industrial carbon management, offering insights for scaling CCS and engineered carbon solutions.

This mid-2025 update reviews key CCS policy, legal and regulatory developments across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It also explores the International Maritime Organization’s new Net-Zero Framework, highlighting CCS’s potential role in supporting compliance and advancing global momentum.

Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) are emerging as a key tool for industrial decarbonisation, providing financial certainty for CCS. This report examines five European schemes, exploring design, operation, and implications for CCS projects, with insights on project selection, payment structures, risk management, and policy effectiveness.

This paper explores how nations with high emissions and mitigation capacity can lead CCUS deployment. Using the UAE as a case study, it examines barriers such as financing and societal acceptance, highlights policy lessons, and considers the role of fossil-fuel exporters in driving large-scale CCUS.

This report examines advancements in CO₂ capture and transport technologies, key cost drivers, and strategies for optimisation. Providing a global perspective on CCS deployment, it offers insights for policymakers, industry, and researchers on scaling CCS and advancing the transition to a low-carbon economy.

With new NDCs due in February 2025, this report assesses how carbon management features in national commitments. It explores current inclusion in NDCs, international policy perspectives, and the role of climate finance in advancing carbon management technologies.

This brief analyses COP29 outcomes on carbon management, carbon markets, and climate finance. It highlights decisions on a global carbon market, the new climate finance goal, enhanced international collaboration, and implications for inclusive, sustainable deployment of carbon management technologies.

This guide explains the EU CO₂ storage permitting process, highlighting legal frameworks, project experiences, and best practices. It outlines critical elements such as risk management, stakeholder engagement, monitoring, and cross-border cooperation, offering insights to streamline permitting and support large-scale CCS deployment across Europe.

This report reviews two decades of CCS policy, legal and regulatory developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa. It identifies global and regional trends, government initiatives, and key challenges to large-scale CCS deployment from policy, legal, regulatory, and commercial perspectives.