The main objective of the BIGCCS Centre is to contribute to the ambitious targets set out in the Climate Agreement reached by the Norwegian Parliament in February 2008, and thus promote CCS. The BIGCCS Centre will enable sustainable power generation from fossil fuels based on cost-effective capture, safe transport and underground storage of CO2. This will be achieved by building expertise and closing critical knowledge gaps of the CO2 chain, and developing novel technologies in an extensive collaborative research effort.