Bellona Europa welcomes the Commission’s initiative in the upcoming Delegated Act to identify the products which can be considered to permanently chemically bind greenhouse gases, specifically captured CO₂. Ultimately, installations generating CO₂ will not need to surrender allowances only if they can prove that the CO₂ will not be entering the atmosphere further down the value chain.

Bellona Europa believes that identifying the handful of products that permanently store CO₂ in line with the ETS Directive (EU) 2023/959 is crucial to ensure the climate integrity of Industrial Carbon Management solutions such as CCS and CCU as well as the accurate accounting of the flow of CO₂. It also allows for differentiation between CCU use cases with concrete climate change mitigation potential and those that are primarily commercial applications with unclear climate change mitigation potential.

Read our full consultation response below.

• Consultation Response (pdf)