Present obstacles for CO₂ capture involve reducing capital and energy costs. This study describes carbon dioxide capture with monoethanolamine (MEA) in organic solvents as a way to reduce the energy consumption during desorption. The solvents used in this study are a mixture of ethylene glycol and 1-propanol (EG/PrOH), diethylene glycol monoethyl ether (DEGMEE), and N-methylformamide (NMF). A microwave regeneration technique was used to easily and quickly screen the performances of the amine solutions and experiments were designed to investigate the solvent effects on CO₂ capture by MEA. Globally, DEGMEE solutions resulted in the lowest energy consumptions and good CO₂ cyclic capacities; the best solutions reducing the energy consumption by 78% in comparison to the traditional 30 wt% MEA aqueous solution. These findings show that organic solvents have much promise in improving CO₂ capture technology. It was also found that using NMF greatly enhanced the CO₂ absorption kinetics but was detrimental during the desorption step.