{"id":728345,"date":"2026-01-29T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728345\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:20:14","slug":"uk-and-europe-risk-missing-out-on-vital-ccs-investment-without-stronger-government-backing-warns-new-marsh-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728345\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Europe risk missing out on vital CCS investment without stronger government backing, warns new Marsh report"},"content":{"rendered":"

London |\u00a029 January, 2026<\/p>\n

A new analysis by Marsh Risk, a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) and the world\u2019s\u00a0leading insurance broker and risk advisor, warns that the UK and Europe could miss out on significant carbon capture\u00a0and storage (CCS) investment opportunities if governments do not provide stable and credible support, as emerging\u00a0markets in the Middle East and Asia quickly gain traction for capital investment. Challenges such as rising costs,\u00a0regulatory readiness gaps, and policy uncertainty threaten to slow deployment, putting jobs and regional economic\u00a0growth at risk.<\/p>\n

The analysis, CCS at Scale: Aligning Risk and Reality in Carbon Capture and Storage<\/a>, is based on the views of 504\u00a0senior UK-based CCS decision-makers covering the global CCS value chain. According to the findings, Europe is\u00a0currently the leading region for planned CCS investment, with 62% of industry leaders targeting the area, ahead of\u00a0North America and the Middle East & North Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, with the average forecast cost to capture, transport, and store CO2 coming in at $163.45 per tonne \u2013 well\u00a0above current carbon prices \u2013 many projects are likely to remain reliant on national subsidies to be commercially\u00a0viable. Furthermore, 42% of leaders expect costs to rise by 11-15% and 31% anticipate increases of 16-20%, adding\u00a0even greater pressure to project economics.<\/p>\n

The cautious investment approach being taken to CCS projects is reflected through the analysis\u2019s findings of a\u00a0staggered timeline for Final Investment Decisions (FIDs): 26% of FIDs are expected between 2025-27; 35% between\u00a02028-30; 23% between 2031-33; and 12% between 2034-36. While this could reduce developers\u2019 immediate financial\u00a0exposures, it risks creating a bottleneck towards the end of the decade, putting strain on financing, supply chains, and\u00a0storage capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Insurance is seen as a key enabler of CCS projects, with nearly two-thirds of leaders relying heavily on insurance to\u00a0manage risks. However, engagement between risk, insurance, and technical teams remains limited, highlighting the\u00a0need for better alignment between risk management and project delivery.<\/p>\n

Andrew Herring, Global Chair of Energy and Power, Marsh Risk, said: \u201cStable policy frameworks, regulatory certainty,\u00a0and credible risk transfer mechanisms are essential if the global CCS industry is to attract the scale of investment\u00a0needed to accelerate decarbonisation and support economic growth. For this vision to be realised, governments must\u00a0commit to multi-year funding programmes, establish clear project pipelines, and invest in essential CO2 transport and\u00a0storage infrastructure. The insurance industry is playing its part in enabling this vital energy transition industry to grow \u2013 governments must also now step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings show CCS is shifting from mainly US and Eurocentric markets \u2013 which enjoy established emissions\u00a0trading schemes, attractive tax incentives, and streamlined permitting \u2013 to a multi-regional investment frontier. For\u00a0example, the Middle East has scale and cost advantages, particularly through energy megaproject integration, while\u00a0there is strong government backing in Japan and South Korea, and early hubs around heavy industrial clusters in\u00a0Singapore. Projects are already planned across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.<\/p>\n

Emerging regions are positioning themselves as the next CCS growth wave: Australia is leading in the Pacific, with\u00a0projects linked to LNG and hydrogen exports using existing energy infrastructure; and in China, CCS pilots are\u00a0projected to grow under the 2060 net-zero pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London |\u00a029 January, 2026 A new analysis by Marsh Risk, a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7907,7503,2528,1789,108247,748,13489,13490,8612,3032,365,321,393,1112,769,36,1824,2848,4884,1450,2190,730,678,837,2199,13561,1113,1114,1215,116281,20417,1477,3007,1144,1115,6858,770,3046,8787,6860,1438,6506,712,6567,2558,13492,2196,104,812,461,53236,16,657,2723,15,1764,41606],"class_list":{"0":"post-728345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-azerbaijan","11":"tag-bahrain","12":"tag-belgium","13":"tag-botswana","14":"tag-britain","15":"tag-bulgaria","16":"tag-croatia","17":"tag-cyprus","18":"tag-czech-republic","19":"tag-denmark","20":"tag-egypt","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-estonia","23":"tag-finland","24":"tag-france","25":"tag-germany","26":"tag-global","27":"tag-great-britain","28":"tag-greece","29":"tag-hungary","30":"tag-india","31":"tag-ireland","32":"tag-israel","33":"tag-italy","34":"tag-kazakhstan","35":"tag-latvia","36":"tag-lithuania","37":"tag-luxembourg","38":"tag-malawi","39":"tag-namibia","40":"tag-netherlands","41":"tag-nigeria","42":"tag-northern-ireland","43":"tag-norway","44":"tag-oman","45":"tag-poland","46":"tag-portugal","47":"tag-press-release","48":"tag-qatar","49":"tag-romania","50":"tag-saudi-arabia","51":"tag-scotland","52":"tag-serbia","53":"tag-slovakia","54":"tag-slovenia","55":"tag-south-africa","56":"tag-spain","57":"tag-sweden","58":"tag-turkey","59":"tag-uganda","60":"tag-uk","61":"tag-ukraine","62":"tag-united-arab-emirates","63":"tag-united-kingdom","64":"tag-wales","65":"tag-zambia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}