Capturing the Future of Climate Change Mitigation: IEAGHG CCS Summer School 2026

Nature & Climate Perspective

**Accelerating engineered carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment provides critical permanent sequestration capacity to curb atmospheric heat-trapping, shielding vulnerable biomes from severe climate-induced thermal stress. **

• Mitigates compound pressure on terrestrial ecosystems and LULUCF sinks by abating industrial point-source emissions that drive extreme regional heat anomalies.
• Delivers ultra-long-term carbon permanence (millennial timescale) relative to vulnerable biological sinks, strictly satisfying the permanence requirements defined under the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles.
• Requires rigorous environmental impact assessments to ensure subsurface geological storage and CO2 transport corridors do not compromise local benthic or terrestrial biodiversity.

Market & Policy Outlook

**The maturation of CCS frameworks and capacity building directly reinforces high-integrity Article 6. 4 market mechanisms and corporate SBTi net-zero compliance pathways.**

• Aligns technical carbon management with emerging Article 6.2 and Article 6.4 frameworks, enabling cross-border ITMO transfers for internationally verified permanent removals.
• Drives credit price differentiation across voluntary and compliance carbon markets, establishing a pricing premium for ICVCM-aligned CCP-labeled durable removal credits over conventional avoidance offsets.
• Provides hard-to-abate industrial sectors with verified mitigation instruments necessary to meet science-based Scope 1 and Scope 3 neutralization mandates under SBTi standards.