How Norway could absorb Europe’s CO2

Stockholm One thing Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) did not achieve during his visit to Oslo this week: Norway cannot meet Germany’s request for larger gas supplies. “We are already producing at the maximum,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to his German counterpart.

But instead he made an offer that may not solve the energy emergency, but could make an important contribution to climate neutrality. According to Støre, the Norwegian continental shelf has the capacity to “safely store large parts of Europe’s carbon dioxide” – meaning a CO2 storage facility under the seabed.