Although carbon capture facilities can supply valuable CO₂ to industries such as food production, chemicals, or synthetic fuels, buyers hesitate to integrate captured CO₂ due to certification uncertainties.

Without trusted provenance and lifecycle data, downstream users risk regulatory non-compliance or greenwashing accusations, deterring large-scale market uptake.

The tension lies in industries needing both decarbonization and rigorous accountability, but current systems leave critical gaps between capture, distribution, and usage.

The root obstacle is fragmented data management, absence of harmonized certification standards, and lack of end-to-end, auditable digital infrastructure to securely link capture events with subsequent industrial use.

Technical, regulatory, and operational silos prevent reliable aggregation and verification, particularly for cross-border CO₂ trades within the Eurozone.