The Janschwalde coal-fired power plant in Germany, near the Polish border. It was awarded millions of euros to develop a carbon capture and storage capacity, but the project never came to fruition (Photo: Tobias Scheck)

Investigation

After spending €587 million, EU has zero CO2 storage plants

Investigations

Digital

Green Economy

by Peter Teffer, Brussels,

Ten years ago, EU leaders said there were "huge possible global benefits of a sustainable use of fossil fuels".

They said, after a summit in Brussels in March 2007, that a technology called 'carbon capture and sequestration', also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), should be deployed with new fossil-fuel power plants by 2020.

This technology would reduce the negative impact the exte...