European Carbon Dioxide Thematic Network (CO₂NET)

CO₂NET is the European Network of researchers, developers and users of CO₂ technology, facilitating co-operation between these organisations and the European projects on CO₂ geological storage, CO₂ capture and zero emissions technologies. CO₂NET is making a major contribution to the reduction in CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere so that Europe has a continued stable supply of affordable and environmentally acceptable energy.

This is being achieved through the European Network to enable informed decision-making on determining whether capture and storage into geological formations can be achieved cost effectively and safely and zero emissions can be achieved. CO₂NET is a Knowledge Transfer Network and is developing into a technology provider-user Network to build confidence in and encourage uptake of technologies towards meeting European and world emissions reduction objectives. The Network provides a "think-tank" of expertise, information for policy-making and facilitates the decision-making process at European and national level. The Network has become the European Research Area "Virtual Centre of Excellence" for CO₂ storage, capture, reduction and elimination, in order to establish safe, technically feasible, socially acceptable CO₂ mitigation options for wide scale introduction.