Research efforts are currently devoted to hydrogen storage in CO 2 as formic acid derivatives, a thirty-year old idea [1] not yet implemented. A chemical loop is conceivable based on a formate intermediate which can be produced in a pure and storable form under moderately high CO 2 and H 2 pressures and which can release gases at atmospheric pressure on demand when in contact with an appropriate catalyst. The catalytic decomposition of HCOOH itself has received renewed attention.[2] Remarkably, M. Beller and co-workers have demonstrated that HCOOH/NEt 3 adducts can also be catalytically decomposed at 40 8C to H 2 free of CO, albeit diluted by CO 2 .[3] However, a procedure for the production of either HCOOH or HCOOH/NEt 3 adducts from CO 2 and H 2 is still lacking. The formation of HCOOH by CO 2 hydrogenation is hampered by unfavorable thermodynamics (DG o 298 = + 33 kJ mol À1