POLICY BRIEF article
Front. Sustain. Energy Policy
Sec. Policy and Environmental Impact
Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsuep.2025.1524409
Unlocking the potential of geological storage of CO2: What role for a Storage Climate Club?
Provisionally accepted
Elizabeth Ann Carey1,2*
Mohammed Al-Juaied3- 1Pantheon-Assas University, Paris, France
- 2Centre Thucydide d'Analyse et de Recherche en Relations Internationales, Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France
- 3Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a key carbon dioxide (CO2) mitigation technology in climate change mitigation pathways that aim to limit the rise in temperatures to below 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius, in line with the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).This policy brief focuses on the deployment at scale of geological storage of CO2 as the last critical link in the CCS process chain. It proposes the establishment of a new Storage Climate Club led by a group of "enthusiastic" countries in order to operationalize a new asset class, Carbon Storage Units (CSUs) under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and support the deployment at scale of geological storage of CO2 and CCS technologies worldwide.
Keywords: Carbon capture & storage, CCS, Geological storage of CO 2, Paris Agreement, Article 6, Climate clubs, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Received: 07 Nov 2024; Accepted: 08 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Carey and Al-Juaied. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Elizabeth Ann Carey, careyelizabethann@gmail.com
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