The words 'high level' and 'carbon capture and storage' (CCS) are beginning to crop up in the same sentence more frequently. CCS has indeed made its way into the high-level discussions on which tools need to be deployed to mitigate climate change. In this article GHGS&T's Muriel Cozier reviews the European High Level Conference on Carbon Capture and Storage and looks to see if CCS has, at last, come of age. (C) 2019 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.