Carbon capture and storage (CCS) may become a very important technology for achieving the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers it crucial to achieving climate neutrality. The Northern Lights project is well underway. The aim of the project is to store both Norwegian CO2 and carbon captured in other European countries under the seabed in the North Sea. However, a new research project from NORCE shows that Norwegians are critical when it comes to storing CO2 from other countries on the Norwegian continental shelf.
– Norwegians react very negatively to a concrete proposal to import CO2, both when we refer to imports from Germany or from Europe in general. While 81 percent of Norwegians express support for a project where our own emissions are stored in Norway, support is reduced to 42 percent when emissions come from Germany, says Gisle Andersen, one of the scientists behind the study.
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