Federal Council gives the green light on the expansion of negative emission technologies
At its meeting yesterday, the Federal Council approved a report that identifies measures and frameworks for developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and negative emission technologies (NET) to the required extent by 2050. The report is based on a motion submitted by the Committee for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy of the National Council, which recognises the urgent need for research and development in this area (see news article from 28 March 2022).
In order for Switzerland to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, CCS and NET are needed for emissions that are difficult to avoid. Although such approaches are already known, they are not yet available on the required scale. For their expansion to be environmentally compatible, cost-efficient, and socially accepted over the next thirty years, the necessary frameworks should already be improved today as the Federal Council states in its correspondence. This decision underlines the importance of DemoUpCARMA already exploring such technologies and analysing their scalability and feasibility.
More information:
- Press release (available in German, French and Italian)
- Report of the Federal Council “Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and negative emission technologies (NET)” (available in German, French and Italian)
