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  "attribution": "Calculated by Environment Dashboard from IEA 2026; CCUS Projects Database, https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/ccus-projects-database, License: CC BY 4.0 Changes: Summed the announced capacity of operating capture projects by sector, as the IEA's explorer does.",
  "description": "How much CO2 the world's operating carbon capture facilities are built to capture each year, by the sector they capture it from, including direct air capture, as recorded in the IEA's CCUS Projects Database. This is capacity, not the CO2 actually captured.",
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        {"id": "hydrogen-ammonia", "label": "Hydrogen or ammonia"},
        {"id": "biofuels", "label": "Biofuels"},
        {"id": "other-fuel-transformation", "label": "Other fuel transformation"},
        {"id": "power", "label": "Power"},
        {"id": "cement", "label": "Cement"},
        {"id": "iron-steel", "label": "Iron and steel"},
        {"id": "chemicals", "label": "Chemicals"},
        {"id": "other-industry", "label": "Other industry"},
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  "headline_entity": "WLD",
  "id": "ccus.iea.operating-capture-capacity",
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  "latest": {
    "age_bp": null,
    "dims": {
      "sector": "all"
    },
    "entity": "WLD",
    "period": "2026-03-26",
    "status": "final",
    "value": 62.534
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  },
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  "notes": [],
  "notice": "This is a work derived by Environment Dashboard from IEA material and Environment Dashboard is solely liable and responsible for this derived work. The derived work is not endorsed by the IEA or its Member countries in any manner.",
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    "basis": "Announced capacity of capture facilities (capture, full-chain and utilisation projects; transport and storage projects left out), as the IEA's CCUS Projects Explorer sums it. Capacity is what a facility is designed or announced to capture, not CO2 actually captured or stored. Only projects above 100,000 tonnes a year (1,000 for direct air capture) with an announced timeline are in the database.",
    "bunkers": null,
    "geography": "World (projects in every country in the database)",
    "gwp": null,
    "lulucf": null
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  "superseded_by": null,
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      "sector": ["all", "natural-gas-processing", "hydrogen-ammonia", "biofuels", "other-fuel-transformation", "power", "cement", "iron-steel", "other-industry", "dac"]
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  "title": "Carbon capture capacity in operation, by sector",
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    "label": "million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year of capture capacity",
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