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About the project

Inspiration

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is expected to play a critical role in achieving global climate goals, especially for hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel, chemicals, and natural gas processing.

However, the development of CCUS is not only a technical challenge. It is also a challenge of policy coordination, project transparency, and knowledge accessibility.

We found that global CCUS information is fragmented across government policies, industry reports, academic publications, and project databases. Understanding the global transition requires connecting these scattered pieces of information:

Which countries are leading in developing CCUS policies/facilities?
How are regulatory frameworks evolving?
Where are large-scale projects being deployed?
How fast is the industry moving toward gigaton-scale carbon storage?

This inspired us to build CCUS Policy Hub — an open-source intelligence platform that helps researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals explore how the world is building the carbon management infrastructure of the future.

What it does

CCUS Policy Hub transforms fragmented CCUS knowledge into an interactive, structured intelligence platform.

It currently provides:

🌍 Global CCUS policy tracking
- Explore national CCUS strategies, regulations, and policy milestones.
- Compare policy development pathways across regions.
🏗️ CCUS project intelligence
- Visualize global CCUS projects and their development status.
- Track deployment trends across capture, transport, utilization, and storage.
📊 Interactive data visualization
- Convert complex industry datasets into accessible dashboards.
- Support exploration of historical trends and future scenarios.
📚 Knowledge aggregation
- Connect policy documents, scientific literature, and industry information into a unified knowledge layer.

The platform aims to answer a fundamental question:

How is the world turning carbon storage ambitions into real infrastructure?

How we built it

CCUS Policy Hub was built as an open-source data and visualization platform.

The architecture combines:

CCUS policy records from valid websites
Project databases
Technology and regional classifications
Interactive frontend visualization
Policy document analysis
Reproducible updates
Transparent methodology

Challenges we ran into

Fragmented global information
Data quality and uncertainty
Connecting policy and engineering reality

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that CCUS Policy Hub has evolved from a research idea into a functioning open-source intelligence platform.

Key achievements:

Built a structured global CCUS policy knowledge base.
Created interactive visualization tools for exploring industry development.
Connected policy research with real-world CCUS deployment trends.
Established a foundation for future AI-powered energy and climate intelligence applications.

The project demonstrates how open-source data infrastructure can improve transparency in emerging industries.

What we learned

Building CCUS Policy Hub taught us that climate technology transitions require both engineering solutions and information infrastructure.

A technology can only scale when stakeholders can answer:

What is happening?
Where is it happening?
Why is it happening?
What enables or limits progress?

Reliable data and transparent knowledge systems are essential foundations for accelerating climate action.

We also learned that AI applications depend heavily on high-quality structured knowledge. Before creating intelligent systems, we need trustworthy data foundations.