Project description
A unified European strategy for carbon management
Europe currently faces fragmented efforts and significant barriers – such as infrastructure gaps and financing hurdles – that threaten its 2050 climate goals. The EU-funded CO2NEXUS project aims to accelerate large-scale carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) by uniting this fragmented community into a cohesive, science-based network. By fostering structured collaboration between key European platforms and diverse stakeholders, the project will align policy, research, and industry activities. Additional objectives include delivering a strategic innovation agenda and enhancing knowledge sharing to overcome permitting delays and de-risk investments. The goal of CO2NEXUS is to drive Europe’s industrial transition, foster competitive low-carbon industries, and establish the EU as a global leader in sustainable, long-term industrial carbon management.
Objective
CO2NEXUS aims to accelerate the large-scale deployment of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) in Europe by fostering structured collaboration between the European Technology Innovation Platform for CCUS (ETIP-ZEP) and the SET Plan Implementation Working Group 9 (IWG9). Anchored in the objectives of the European Climate Law, the Net Zero Industry Act, and the Industrial Carbon Management Strategy, the project will consolidate Europe’s fragmented CCUS community into a cohesive, science-based network that supports climate neutrality by 2050. CO2NEXUS will deliver a Thematic Vision for CCUS R&I priorities and a Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA), ensuring that policy, industry, and research activities are aligned to overcome barriers such as infrastructure development, permitting delays, risk allocation, and financing challenges. Through inclusive stakeholder fora, targeted outreach, and integration of expertise across the capture, transport, storage, and utilisation value chain, the project will create lasting cooperation among governments, industry, researchers, civil society, and financial actors. By enhancing knowledge sharing, building consensus, and strengthening sustainability plans for ETIP-ZEP and IWG9, CO2NEXUS will generate robust evidence to inform EU and national policymakers, de-risk investments, and enable competitive low-carbon industries. The project’s outcomes will accelerate CCUS deployment, support Europe’s industrial transition, and position the EU as a global leader in industrial carbon management.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society
- engineering and technology environmental engineering carbon capture engineering
- social sciences law
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2025-02
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1210 BRUXELLES
Belgium
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