The world’s first global CCUS industry is being built — and Europe is where it starts. The Net-Zero Industry Act has assigned legally binding CO₂ storage obligations to 44 oil and gas producers. Porthos is injecting CO₂ into the North Sea. Northern Lights has issued the world’s first certified CO₂ storage certificates. CBAM is converting European carbon intensity standards into the price of market access for every industrial exporter trading with the EU. Across every link in the value chain — from capture at cement plants and steel mills, to liquid CO₂ shipping connecting dispersed emitters to offshore storage, to the North Sea’s emerging storage marketplace — capital is committing and contracts are being signed. The question is no longer whether European CCUS will scale. It is how fast, over which infrastructure, and which markets will build their own programs on the European template first.

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Carbon Capture Europe Summit 2027 (#CCES2027), is where that industry gets built. Scheduled for April 13-14, 2027 in WTC Rotterdam, 1,000+ senior leaders from industrial emitters, storage operators, EPC contractors, financiers, technology providers, and governments come together to advance the founding agenda of the world’s first global CCUS industry: locking in storage offtake contracts, shaping the CO₂ transport regulatory framework before it becomes law, advancing the international partnerships that carry the European model from Rotterdam’s port infrastructure to the industrial clusters of Asia, the Middle East, and North America.​