Policy paper

National Infrastructure Commission report on greenhouse gas removals (GGRs): government response

The government's response to the National Infrastructure Commission report on engineered greenhouse gas removals.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 5 July 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Government Response to the National Infrastructure Commission’s Report on Engineered GGRs

PDF, 271 KB, 21 pages

Details

In 2020, the government asked the National Infrastructure Commission to examine greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies and assess the policies needed to incentivise their rollout.

The National Infrastructure Commission published its final Greenhouse gas removal technologies report on 29 July 2021, which included 8 recommendations to government.

The government response to the report sets out our position on the recommendations, and is published alongside a consultation on business models for engineered GGRs.

Published 5 July 2022