Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public support for carbon capture and storage

Sven Anders, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Ulf Liebe et al. (2023). “Cross-border CO₂ Transport Decreases Public Support for Carbon Capture and Storage, 12 October 2023, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3405741/v1]

Abstract: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) of CO₂ has become indispensable to reach net-zero targets. Investments into cross-border CO₂ transport infrastructure are considered essential to the cost-efficiency of a CCS strategy. We conduct multifactorial vignette experiments in four European countries and Canada to disentangle the impact of cross-border CO₂ transport on individuals’ acceptance and fairness evaluations of CCS. We find its perceived unfairness to clearly hinder public acceptance of CCS.