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New legal drivers for carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) will not be mandatory for fossil fuel power plants in the EU but will be promoted by treating stored emissions as though they were "not emitted" in the European carbon trading scheme (ETS). CCS plant operators will therefore avoid the cost of buying carbon allowances.

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ENDS Europe's Sonja van Renssen asks the EEA’s Jacqueline McGlade how she expects the agency’s new biodiversity tools to help shape EU policy