CCS – carbon capture and storage
A significant technology for climate goals
Sweden is now investing in CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, which is the separation and storage of carbon dioxide to achieve climate goals.
The EU aims to be climate neutral by 2050. Sweden's goal is to have no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045, after which we will achieve negative emissions. To achieve negative emissions, so-called bio-CCS is an important technology according to, among others, the UN climate panel IPCC and the EU.
Source Swedish Energy Agency .
Sweden's goal
Sweden's goal is to have no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045, after which we will achieve negative emissions. To achieve negative emissions, so-called bio-CCS is an important technology according to, among others, the UN climate panel IPCC and the EU.
The future of CCS
The potential for bio-CCS in Sweden is based on the major emission points for biogenic carbon dioxide. The largest emission points are the chemical pulp mills (kraft pulp mills) where combustion takes place as part of the chemical recycling. Sweden also has many combined heat and power plants that use by-products from the forest and sawmill industry or household waste as fuel, which may also be relevant for bio-CCS. The total theoretical potential in Sweden is large, up to 20–30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year from kraft pulp mills and combined heat and power plants. The climate policy path selection investigation (SOU 2020:4) states that the realizable potential for bio-CCS in Sweden amounts to at least 10 million tonnes of biogenic carbon dioxide per year in a 2045 perspective.
