With the climate crisis intensifying by the day, oil and gas companies argue that only ambitious plans to capture and store carbon dioxide from polluting industries present a realistic pathway for slashing emissions.

This series investigates how the fossil fuel industry is soaking up billions in euros in subsidies to start rolling out carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects — despite grave concerns among climate advocates, and energy and financial analysts, over whether the industry’s favourite “climate solution” can ever make a meaningful dent in global emissions.

With construction already underway on a handful of Europe’s flagship CCS schemes, this series provides a unique and timely insight into Big Oil’s agenda, the cost to taxpayers, and the potentially disastrous implications of letting the technology extend the fossil fuel era.

This series was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe.
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