Policy, Legal & Regulation
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Ad hoc Working Group Chairs structure complex discussions to help drive timely outcomes
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The first Monday evening of the UNFCCC climate talks in Bonn saw the SBI opening plenary deal with three more important CCS relevant agenda items. First, the...
CCS features positively at opening of climate change talks in Bonn
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The 36th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) two permanent subsidiary bodies – the Subsidiary Body...
Journey to Doha – key climate change talks in Bonn
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will gather in Bonn for the 36th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies...
Global CCS Institute Japan Regional Members' Meeting
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The Global CCS Institute will host its Japan Regional Members' Meeting in Tokyo on 8 June 2012. This meeting will bring the latest information on CCS to senior...
Mixed report card for CCS at Clean Energy Ministerial
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The third Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM3) was held in London on 25-26 April 2012, bringing together Ministers from more than 20 participating countries to...
An overview of federal and provincial regulatory frameworks and gaps that guide and affect implementation of CCS: A non-confidential report
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Project Pioneer involves the construction of a large-scale carbon capture facility at the Keephills 3 coal-fired power plant west of Edmonton, Alberta. The...
What the UK could learn from Alberta
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This week the Government of the United Kingdom announced the revival and relaunch of a £1 billion competition for the first carbon capture and storage (CCS)...
Comprehensive UK CCS policy announcement: early thoughts
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On Tuesday this week, the United Kingdom Government announced their new CCS competition as part of a broader CCS Commercialisation Program, together with...
The Institute submits its views to the UNFCCC
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The Global CCS Institute is an accredited observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and recently made two submissions to...
CO2 leakage - how important is it?
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If public acceptance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is potentially the biggest hurdle to the deployment of CCS as a tool in our fight against climate...
The BASREC pre-study - In praise of hubs and clusters?
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On 6 and 7 March, there was a conference on carbon transportation and storage solutions in Warsaw, Poland. This conference was organised by ...
Talking CCS in California
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Among US states, California is leading the race to explore and implement ways to lower its greenhouse gas output. Its goal: to cut emissions to one-fifth of...
Assessment of COP 17 South Africa
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I was an official observer at COP 17 Durban, representing our industry group. This article is a personal assessment of the decisions and agreements and does...
CCS lessons learned report American Electric Power Mountaineer CCS II project phase 1
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The front end engineering and design (FEED) package developed within Phase I incorporated knowledge gained and lessons learnt (construction, operations, and...
Summary of Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program Research
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The Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP) program of the US Department of Energy (DOE) is the United States’ leading effort to assess the...
An update on the state of CCS regulation from Europe
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As for many New Year resolutions, January 2012 seems a good time for assessing how the transposition process of the EU CO2 Storage Directive is...
Global Opportunities and Strategic Directions workshop – Washington DC
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As a part of the Institute’s strategic goal of promoting global CCS deployment, we hosted a major CCS event in Washington DC on 19 January 2012. Over 90...
CCS in Romania - Lessons learned from the CCS regulatory toolkit
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The Romanian Government through the Ministry of Economy, Trade and the Business Environment (METBE) and the Global CCS Institute reviewed the regulatory steps...
Environmentalists join forces on CCS
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Last month, we formed the ENGO Network on CCS, comprising nine of the world’s leading environmental and climate change advocacy organizations coming...
Claude Mandil talks with the Institute about the current global energy situation and reducing emission
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A few months ago I had the great opportunity to talk with Claude Mandil, former head of the International Energy Agency and long-standing member and now...
APEC Cleaner Fossil Energy: Securing a Cleaner Energy Future
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Cleaner Fossil Energy: Securing a Cleaner Energy Future, the 2012 APEC Clean Fossil Energy Technical and Policy Seminar has been organised under the...
Who on Earth needs coal?
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The short answer to this question is that we do! Of course, if you live in France or Sweden where nearly all your electricity comes from a mixture of nuclear...
A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US — the rewards of collaborating with China
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This is the third and final installment of a Q&A with John Thompson of the Clean Air Task Force. Previously we talked about Canada’s leadership in CCS and...
A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US — the liability barrier
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I started my three-part Q&A with John Thompson of the Clean Air Task Force by focusing on Canada’s leadership in CCS. In this installment, Thompson...
To jumpstart CCS in the US, look to Canada and China
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To John Thompson, CCS is an acronym with more than one meaning. To anyone in the Global CCS Institute's community it means 'carbon capture and storage, or...
