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📢 Campaign for real climate solutions & real emissions cuts ✊ Supported by 200+ NGOs, networks, groups & activists in Europe & beyond 👉 https://www.realzeroeurope.org/
As Europe’s largest carbon capture and storage (#CCS) project prepares to start operating in the Netherlands, fertilizer giant Yara is claiming a major climate win. But our expert Lisa Tostado pulls back the curtain on why this project is a dangerous distraction. 🙅 1/2 👇
🔴 As Europe’s largest #CCS project prepares to start operating in the Netherlands, fertilizer giant Yara is claiming a major climate win. But in our new blog @ciel.org campaigner Lisa Tostado unpacks why this project is a dangerous distraction 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl... 1/2 👇
You can read a longer version of this textbook case of corporate capture and fossil fuel industry false solutions - which the Commission wants to paint as democratic - on @realzeroeurope.bsky.social's blog: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl...
Implementation dialogue on carbon capture, the latest in a textbook case of fossil fuel influence — Real Zero Europe
Written by: Belén Balanyá, Researcher and Campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) This blog is a longer version of the Deregulation Watch post published by CEO on July ...
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Climate Commissioner Hoekstra invited dirty industries with vested interests to ‘implementation dialogue’ on carbon capture & storage - failed, risky+costly tech. Bring in critical voices, we said! We have stakeholder diversity, they replied. 🚫Falsely. 🔎New post corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
WATCH NOW: Webinar explaining how the EU is giving companies permission to pollute ✂️ via deregulation of permitting, thanks to Big Tech, fossil fuel & mining lobbies 📉 impacts on communities + nature 🔎 data centres 🇮🇪 + mines 🇸🇪 + CO2 pipelines 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 💪 how to resist? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1S...
Webinar: How the EU is giving companies permission to pollute?
YouTube video by CEO | Corporate Europe Observatory
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🔴 Today the European Commission unveiled its proposed revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), one of the EU’s flagship climate policies. At a time of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, we need a climate strategy focused on reducing emissions at source, not on false solutions 👇
Carbon capture projects are underregulated, prone to dangerous accidents and not very effective. We deserve real solutions, not climate scams!
Locals sue California county over controversial carbon project
A facility in a Kern County oil field aims to bury massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
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#BECCS + #CCS = a mirage used to legitimise biomass & fossil fuels, explains @realzeroeurope.bsky.social Another useful read: "success is not the point. The point is to provide a gigantic, publicly funded reason for the fossil fuel industry to stay in business" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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In an article published by @realzeroeurope.bsky.social we expose the hype around #BECCS, which serves as a PR tool for the #biomass and fossil fuel industries even though large-scale CO2-capture from biomass burning has never been demonstrated: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl....
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: Dangerous Hype — Real Zero Europe
Written by: Almuth Ernsting, Researcher and Campaigner at Biofuelwatch .
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1/ 🧐 Join us for a webinar explaining what's at stake from sweeping changes to EU permitting rules for energy & industrial projects. Changes happening at the request of mining corporations, Big Tech & Big Oil 🦹♂️ When? 14 July 2026, 11am CEST Register at cloud.corporateeurope.org/apps/forms/s...
🔴 A major @propublica.org & @drilledmedia.bsky.social investigation confirms what many experts have long warned: carbon capture has failed to deliver at the scale promised, despite billions in public subsidies. Yet #CCS is increasingly being elevated as a cornerstone of climate policy. 1/
@wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu, is not too late! You can still add @corporateeurope.org & other CSOs with a track record working on #CCS to today's implementation dialogue on CCS in EU policy You say you're listening... so please do so & extend invitations to groups on @realzeroeurope.bsky.social
🛢️The oil & gas lobby is pushing the EU to fast-track thousands of kilometres of CO2 pipelines through permitting loopholes, weaker assessments, and “public interest” labels that make projects harder to challenge. Read @corporateeurope.org report corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 1/3
Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory
New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.
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🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨 At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres. Read more corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇 🧵 1/6
Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory
New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.
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🔍 Looking for research on climate false solutions? 📚 Our resources page brings together reports, briefings and articles from members of the Real Zero Europe coalition, covering issues such as carbon removals, offsets and CCS. Explore the collection 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources
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Read Real Zero Europe and members' publications on carbon removals, carbon capture and storage, carbon offsets, carbon farming and more.
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🔴 While CCS is often discussed as just a technical fix, its impacts are anything but theoretical. Its infrastructure reshapes landscapes and creates new environmental risks. 👇🧵
🔴 A recent @climateanalytics.org study shows that reaching #RealZero isn’t some far-off ideal - but it’s achievable, cost-effective & urgently needed. The conclusion is clear: instead of relying on offsetting emissions, we need to phase out fossil fuels👇 climateanalytics.org/publications... 🧵👇 1/
🔴 A new report by @foeeurope.bsky.social & @rosaluxeu.bsky.social questions the growing push for nature credits in EU policy. Read the report to understand what’s at stake, who benefits, and which real solutions are being sidelined 👇 friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/... 🧵👇 1/
🔍 Not all climate solutions are what they seem. In our "Pulling Back the Curtain" webinar series, campaigners unpack some of the most common false solutions — from #CarbonOffsets and #CCS to #Geoengineering and #BiodiversityOffsets — and explain why they risk delaying real climate action. 🧵👇
“CCS is a proven failure. It is a political tool designed to keep fossil fuel extraction going while pretending something meaningful is being done about dangerous climate change,” says Louise Morris in @thepointau.bsky.social 👇 thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... 🧵👇
🌲 #BigTech is betting on #BECCS to clean up its emissions — but the evidence tells a different story. A @technologyreview.com investigation shows how shaky accounting & risky assumptions are being dressed up as #ClimateAction 👇 www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/15/1... Read more in the slides 👇
🆕 A new @somoamsterdam.bsky.social investigation shows that land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya now cover over 5.4 million hectares — almost as much as the country’s total arable land! 🧵👇
On 8-9 Dec, the EU Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum ➡️ oilchange.org/publications...
Public funding for #CCS is accelerating. @oilchange.bsky.social & @corporateeurope.org show 🔸EU #CCS subsidies have more than doubled 2023, totaling over €6.2 bn 🔸Member States added €6.1 bn more 🔸Norway, central to EU CCS plans, has spent €5 bn www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa... ⏬
Mapping the money behind carbon capture — Real Zero Europe
Public subsidies and industry ties
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📣 Breaking: Analysis from Oil Change International & @corporateeurope.org reveals €17.3 billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001 and the fossil fuel ties influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum #FossilFreePolitics Read the full factsheet ➡️ oilchange.org/publications...
On 8-9 Dec, the @EU_Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
Mapping the money behind carbon capture | Corporate Europe Observatory
New research by Corporate Europe Observatory and Oil Change International shows that Big Polluters have captured €17 billion in public subsidies for failed carbon capture technology – because fossil f...
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🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001. After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
🌱 The EU’s 2040 climate targets lean heavily on carbon removals & other “magical” techs. But what if the real solution is already under our feet? A new @iatp.bsky.social blog shows that transforming Europe’s food systems could cut agricultural emissions significantly without risky technologies 👇
🆕 The Land Gap Report 2025 shows how climate ambition is still being undermined by an unrealistic reliance on land-based carbon removal. The report reviews land-based & technological #CDR across national climate pledges submitted by 194 countries & the #EU before #COP30 👇 landgap.org/2025/report
