Denmark’s CO2 storage claims are hugely overblown, say researchers and insiders. Even the quarter-sized downgrade is still off the mark.

Denmark has massively overrated its go-to climate fix

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The message was unequivocal when Ole Jørgensen in April 2024 sent a warning to a colleague at the research institution GEUS.

»There’s something seriously wrong, and at some point, this story is going to blow up in our faces,« he wrote.

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