Germany Carbon Management Strategy Key Principles (2024)

The February 2024 Carbon Management Strategy key points (Eckpunkte) with the KSpG amendment draft, adopted by the federal cabinet in May 2024, were Germany first proactive CCUS doctrine: CCS/CCU for hard-to-abate emissions, CO2 transport and offshore storage enablement with marine-protected-area exclusions, and the start of the legislative journey that ended in the November 2025 Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Act. The key points already contained the architecture the law later enacted — EEZ/continental-shelf focus, Land opt-in for onshore storage, overriding public interest for permitting, coal-power exclusion — while leaving funding, strategy depth and acceptance to later politics. Read today, the record is the doctrine stage of a two-step sequence (principles 2024, statute 2025), superseded as an action guide by de-carbon-management-strategy-2024 but retained as the decision record of the strategic turn.