ECB President Lagarde said the ECB is providing framework guidance.

Nikkei reports Inpex will begin trial drilling for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project offshore Chiba, near Tokyo. The work will be carried out by Inpex subsidiary Metropolitan CCS. Metropolitan CCS president Yoshiaki Oku said: "Decarbonizing industries such as steel is difficult. We hope to solve this by storing CO2 underground. This will become major infrastructure for Japanese industry."

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