“…If this position manifests, existing policy plans for cost-e cient CCS and the public acceptance of CCS would move even further apart.Against this background, we employ a multifactorial vignette experiment to uncover public acceptance with a focus on the perceived fairness of cross-border CO 2 transport in ve countries. Expanding on previous research 14,15,16,17 , our experimental design allows us to disentangle the relative importance of attributes of CSS implementation, including cross-border CO 2 transport, for acceptance and fairness evaluations. Online surveys (see Methods) were conducted in Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and UK, that differ in the stage of their public discourse and implementation of CSS.…”