Undersea graveyard for imported CO2 opens in Denmark


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A file photo taken in 2022 in Oygarden near Bergen, Norway, showing the construction site for a terminal which will collect liquefied carbon dioxide CO2. Photos: Alexiane Lerouge/AFP

Denmark inaugurated on March 8 a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800m beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.

The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field.

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