“The development of a CO₂ infrastructure in Germany is essential for these industries,” said the lobby group’s president Christian Knell in a press release. Germany needs to start work on the project as soon as possible, given that cement manufacturers and other industries in the EU emissions trading scheme must produce in a largely climate-neutral way by 2040, the association warned. “To achieve this, companies need a CO₂ pipeline network by 2035 at the latest,” Knell said.
He said many cement manufacturers are ready to launch CO₂ capture projects but still lack the necessary legal framework and a suitable transport infrastructure.
The German government last month proposed making carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. It plans to focus state support on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial processes where emissions are difficult or impossible to avoid. The cement industry report puts the current amount of unavoidable CO2 emissions from the cement, lime and waste incineration sectors at 66 million tonnes per year – almost ten percent of the country’s entire emissions last year, which amounted to 673 million tonnes.
Source: ECEEE
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