A new report from Xodus Group and Subsea7 warns that Europe's carbon capture and storage targets are at risk because the infrastructure to move captured CO2 from emitters to storage sites barely exists. The report highlights pipelines and shipping as the missing links needed to connect industrial clusters in Western and Southern Europe to permanent sequestration. Without coordinated investment in transport networks, CCS projects will struggle to scale beyond pilot stage. The findings point to a chicken-and-egg problem: storage sites need guaranteed CO2 volumes to justify investment, but emitters need transport routes before they commit to capture. The report calls for EU-level planning and public support to break the deadlock. For anyone tracking CCS deployment or carbon removal credits, this is the bottleneck to watch.
