Carbon Management Webinars
Rud Pedersen Public Affairs and IOGP organised a series of four webinars on Carbon Management – a key range of solutions of which CCS, nature-based solutions, clean hydrogen and others are a part of.
1st Webinar – Nature-based solutions
The first webinar, carried out within the framework of the European Commission’s Sustainable Energy Week, focused on nature-based solutions.
The high-level speakers discussed carbon management solutions in agriculture and forestry, their scalability and relevant EU regulatory framework to discuss their role in removing greenhouse gas emissions.
Speakers:
- Artur Runge-Metzger, Director DG Climate Action;
- Ana Frelih-Larsen, Senior Fellow at Ecologic;
- Jutta Paulus, Member of the European Parliament;
- Mika Aho, Director of Public Affairs and Communications at St1.
2nd Webinar – Economic analysis: Can we afford not to bet big on carbon management?
The second discussion took place between top energy economists and a Member of European Parliament on the role of modelling and thorough economic analysis.
Speakers:
- Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA);
- Maria Spyraki, Member of the European Parliament;
- William Zimmern, Head of Global Macroeconomics at BP.
The speakers looked into how modelling can help guide the distribution of effort between all sectors so as to optimise cost-efficiency as well as the economic feasibility of the transition to carbon neutrality
3rd Webinar – Carbon Capture and Storage: still tomorrow’s technology?
The 3rd webinar – held on 9 September – focused on what has been preventing the large-scale uptake of CCS and what needs to be done to accelerate the development of this important technology.
Despite calls from the IEA and IPCC on the need to accelerate the development of CCS infrastructure to meet the climate target, the number of projects on the ground is not growing nearly fast enough. The speakers looked into what needs to be done in order to put CCS back on track.
Speakers:
- Maria da Graça Carvalho, Member of the European Parliament;
- Christian Weinberger, Senior Adviser on Advanced Industrial Technologies and Hydrogen at DG GROW;
- Luca Giansanti, Senior Vice President, Head of European Government Affairs at ENI;
- Julio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy of Columbia University.
4th Webinar – Delivering climate neutrality: what policy framework will take us there?
The 4th webinar looked at enabling measures that will help the EU achieve this goal, including the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the Sustainable Finance agenda, the follow up policy tools to the Hydrogen and Energy System and TEN-E Regulations, as well as financing instruments like the Innovation Fund and Next Generation EU Fund.
The discussion also addressed the Paris Agreement’s goal to achieve a balance between emissions and removals in the second half of this century and the contribution of international cooperation mechanisms towards this objective, as well as whether the EU’s recently explored carbon border-adjustment mechanism will improve or hinder our chances of reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Speakers:
- Jacob Werksman, Principal Adviser at DG CLIMA, European Commission;
- Pernille Weiss, Member of the European Parliament;
- David Hone, Chief Climate Change Adviser at Shell.
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Creating a sustainable business case for CCS value chains

Map of CO2 storage Projects in Europe

IOGP Europe statement on the ECHA proposed PFAS restriction proposal related to the Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage (CCS) Technology

IOGP Europe position on the EU Industrial Carbon Management

IOGP position paper on the European Commission’s public consultation on the EU climate target for 2040

IOGP Europe feedback on Net Zero Industry Act proposal

Joint industry statement on the EU Taxonomy

IOGP response on Competitive Bidding schemes for hydrogen under the Innovation Fund

IOGP response on revamping the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan

IOGP views on the proposed Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2021/241 as regards REPowerEU chapters in Recovery and Resilience Plans

IOGP response to the consultation on certification of carbon removals – EU rules

IOGP comments to R. W. Howarth and M. Z. Jacobson (2021): How Green is Blue Hydrogen?

Re-Stream – Study on the reuse of oil and gas infrastructure for hydrogen and CCS in Europe

IOGP response to the public consultation on the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) proposal

IOGP response to the public consultation on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) proposal

IOGP feedback to the European Commission’s Roadmap on restoring sustainable carbon cycles

IOGP response to the public consultation on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) proposal

IOGP position on the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) Directive

IOGP response to the public consultation on the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) proposal

IOGP response to the public consultation on the FuelEU Maritime proposal

IOGP response to public consultation on the revised Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (CEEAG)

IOGP Paper on metric to use for 2030 targets

IOGP response to the roadmap on the modification of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER)

Public consultation on the EU Action Plan “Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil”

Response to consultation on updating the EU Emissions Trading System

IOGP response to consultation on the revision of the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG)

IOGP response to the Inception Impact Assessment on the revision of the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG) 2014-2020

IOGP views on competition policy supporting the European Green Deal

IOGP statement on the European Commission’s 2030 Climate Target Plan

What’s Right? What’s Wrong? IOGP comments on the ‘EU Strategy for Energy System Integration’ and ‘A hydrogen strategy for a climate neutral Europe’

IOGP written input to the public consultation on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

IOGP views on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG)

IOGP written input to the consultation “2030 Climate Target Plan”

IOGP response to the inception impact assessment concerning the revision of the 2018 Renewable Energy Directive (REDII)

IOGP feedback on the update of EU ETS monitoring and reporting rules (2021-30)

IOGP response to supplementary questions on the EIB Group’s Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025

IOGP response to consultation on the renewed Sustainable Finance strategy

Funding CCS in Europe: key investments for the recovery

IOGP response to the public consultation on the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for TEN-E Regulation

IOGP response to targeted consultation on the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for TEN-E Regulation

IOGP input to the Roadmap on the EU strategy on hydrogen in Europe

IOGP feedback to the Combined Evaluation Roadmap/Inception Impact Assessment on the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for TEN-E

IOGP feedback to the roadmap for a Renovation Wave initiative for public and private buildings

IOGP input to the forthcoming EU Strategy for Energy System Integration

IOGP response to the EIB Group’s Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025

Input to the inception impact assessment on the FuelEU Maritime

IOGP feedback to the proposed European Climate Law

Feedback to the impact inception assessment “2030 Climate Target Plan”

New and old CCS projects in Europe: What’s different this time?

IOGP assessment of National Energy and Climate Plans

Methane Management in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry: Policy recommendations in the context of the EU Methane Strategy

Scaling up Hydrogen in Europe

IOGP assessment of draft National Energy and Climate Plans

The potential for CCS and CCU in Europe Report to the thirty second meeting of the European Gas Regulatory Forum 5-6 June 2019

LNG – a fast lane to make Europe a leader in clean shipping

CCS: the Innovation Fund and beyond

OGP contribution to the CCS Directive evaluation

“Hydrogen for Europe” study launch

Towards greater hydrogen production capacity in Europe

Manifesto: Oil & Gas Industry Solutions Towards 2030 and 2050

Climate change, purpose & doing the right thing: lessons from COVID-19

Hydrogen for Europe: 1st Working Group Meeting

Rebalancing Europe’s natural gas supplies – Learnings, future needs, and policy implications

Creating a sustainable business case for European CCS value chains

Scaling up the energy transition whilst securing a stable suppy

The Europe CCUS & Hydrogen Decarbonisation Summit
