Understanding the factors influencing the acceptance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects is key for the projects’ deployment and for accelerating the global mitigation of CO₂ emissions. While anticipating the ways in which “places” can potentially affect a technology's deployment is relevant to mitigating social risks, social aspects are often omitted or included late in site selection processes. Here, we present a methodology to include place factors upstream in the site-screening process based on a literature review of former CCS implementation processes and maps of potential locations. We identified the place factors that had been determinative for the acceptance of or opposition to 38 CCS projects. Then, the usability of geographic information system (GIS) maps to represent social factors around potential storage sites in Switzerland was assessed. Our results show that place factors have positively influenced 22 and negatively impacted 16 projects in the past. In addition, it is possible to visualize several factors around potential CO₂ storage locations, while unmappable factors must be explored at later stages. We conclude that awareness of place factors coupled with reflection on the values pushed by the technology will likely enable better site choices.

了解影响碳捕获和封存 (CCS) 项目接受度的因素是项目部署和加速全球 CO ₂减排的关键排放。虽然预测“地点”可能影响技术部署的方式与减轻社会风险有关，但在选址过程中往往会忽略或包含社会方面的因素。在这里，我们基于对以前 CCS 实施过程和潜在位置地图的文献回顾，提出了一种方法，在站点筛选过程中包括上游的地点因素。我们确定了决定接受或反对 38 个 CCS 项目的地点因素。然后，评估了地理信息系统 (GIS) 地图在瑞士潜在存储地点周围表示社会因素的可用性。我们的结果表明，地点因素过去对 22 个项目产生了积极影响，对 16 个项目产生了负面影响。此外，_{2 个}存储位置，而不可映射的因素必须在后期探索。我们得出的结论是，对地点因素的认识加上对技术推动的价值的反思可能会促成更好的选址。