CCS has an astonishing failure rate across most applications

"Failure" = a planned project that never materialised into something operational. Between 1972 and 2017

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"Extended Data Fig. 1 Planned and operational CCS capacity, grouped by sector and subsector" - Kazlou, T., Cherp, A. & Jewell, J. Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 1047–1055 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02104-0

Chart: Ketan Joshi, The Australia InstituteSource: Nature climate changeGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper