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CCS at scale: Aligning risk and reality in Carbon Capture and Storage

Explore the challenges slowing carbon capture investment, regulatory readiness, and why insurance is vital for making CCS projects commercially viable.
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Carbon capture and storage is moving quickly from strategic ambition to investment reality. But as projects scale, misalignment across cost, regulation and risk is emerging as a material threat to bankability.

This report is designed for energy companies looking to move from concept to credible delivery. Based on the insights from 504 senior decision-makers, it reveals where confidence in CCS is not yet matched by readiness and what that gap means for FID timelines, regulatory compliance, long-term liability and investor confidence.

What the research reveals:

The findings reveal a landscape of both momentum and misalignment. While industry leaders broadly agree that CCS will be an established industry within the next decade, cost pressures, regulatory preparedness, and cross-chain coordination remain challenges to progress. Bridging these divides — between ambition and execution, optimism and risk — will determine whether CCS can fulfill its promise as a viable, investable pillar of global decarbonisation.

84% expect CCS to be established within 10 years

64% agree that they have concerns about scaling capture technology

26% anticipate taking FID on their next CCS project

Carbon Capture and Storage report insights

Meet the authors

Hannah Jennings

Hannah Jennings

Senior Vice President and CCS Working Group Lead, Energy and Power

  • United Kingdom

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Andrew Herring

Global Chairman, Energy and Power, Marsh Risk

  • United Kingdom