CO2 Conference Tekna 2025

2024 was the warmest year ever measured, and the first year that was warmer than the 1.5-degree target... In other words, we have not managed to slow down the temperature rise as we "hoped", where the goal according to the hashtag #Paris Agreement is "to limit the temperature rise on Earth to "well below" 2 °C, and preferably to 1.5 °C". Climate scientists are certain that human-made emissions of CO₂ are the cause of the increase in global temperature. Therefore, we must reduce CO₂ emissions and remove CO₂ if we are to manage to limit the temperature rise.

In the photo: Alexander Engh, Director of the Norwegian Ministry of Energy, at Tekna´s CO2 Conference 2025.

At Tekn’s CO2 Conference in January 2025, Alexander Engh, Director of the Norwegian Ministry of Energy, made it clear that Norway's focus on research and development (R&D) at the Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) has been important and right, and has yielded results. There are now great expectations for the realization of the CCS value chain through Langskip. 2025 will be an exciting year! He also presented "The Way Forward for CCS" with continued focus on facilitating R&D, storage of CO₂ on the Norwegian continental shelf, the Net Zero Industry Act, and facilitating CO₂ capture in Norway, where it will now be seen as "designing a support program as a series of auctions to cut large emissions and achieve negative CO2 emissions within industry and waste management" (from resolution 91, State Budget 2025). They will return to this in the State Budget for 2026.