The Institute works collaboratively to build and share the expertise necessary to ensure that carbon capture and storage (CCS) can make a significant impact on reducing the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Announced by the Australian Government in September 2008, the Global CCS Institute was formally launched in April 2009. It became a legal entity in June 2009 when it was incorporated under the Australian Corporations Act 2001 as a public company and began operating independently as of July 2009. The Institute is a not-for-profit entity, limited by guarantee, and owned by its Members, with initial funding committed by the Australian Government.

The Institute connects parties around the world to address issues and learn from each other to accelerate the deployment of CCS projects through:

• Sharing Knowledge
  • Collecting information to create a central repository for CCS knowledge.
  • Analysing and disseminating information to fill knowledge gaps and build capacity.

• Fact-based Advocacy
  • Using facts to inform and influence domestic and international low carbon policies.
  • Supporting the commercialisation of CCS by advancing the understanding of appropriate funding and financing solutions and risk regimes.
  • Increasing the awareness of the benefits of CCS and the role it plays within a portfolio of low carbon technologies.

• Assisting Projects
  • Bridging knowledge gaps between demonstration efforts.
  • Developing project specific solutions particularly amongst early movers.

Partnerships

The Institute works collaboratively with a number of Strategic Partners active in the CCS arena. These partners include the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, the International Energy Agency, the World Coal Institute, the International Aluminium Institute, the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the Climate Group, the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Coal Industry Advisory Board.

Membership

The Institute has built a collaborative international Membership, bringing together a unique partnership of government, industry, non-government bodies and research organisations from around the world.

Members have the ability to influence the Institute work program through bi-annual meetings, participation on committees and direct engagement with the organisation. Members can also directly benefit from the organisation’s activities which will shape and influence the prospects for CCS.

Achievements

Reports, Studies and Papers:

• Status of CCS Report – the only comprehensive annual overview of global CCS projects:
  • The Global Status of CCS: 2011
  • The Status of CCS Overview 2010 (October 2010)
  • Status of CCS Interim Report (June 2010)
  • Full report, with Worley Parsons (September 2009)

• CCS Ready Papers:
  • CCS Ready Policy: Considerations and Recommended Practices for Policymakers (February 2010)
  • Defining CCS Ready: An Approach to an International Definition (February 2010)
  • CCS Ready: Issues Brief (October 2010)

• The Institute is the lead agency carrying out work for the Action Group on CCS through the Major Economies Forum (MEF) Clean Energy Ministerial. The Institute drafted a CCS Roadmap in consultation with the UK and Australian governments, and produced an Industrial Roadmap for CCS.

Project Support Platform

The Institute has announced the first set of projects to receive support as part of the Institute’s knowledge sharing brokerage efforts to overcome key barriers facing large-scale, integrated CCS demonstration projects.

The projects granted support under the program are:

• Tenaska Trailblazer Project, Texas, USA
• Tenaska Entergy Nelson 6 Project, Louisiana, USA
• Rotterdam CCS Network Project, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Romanian CCS Demonstration Project, Oltenia, Romania
• Project Pioneer, Alberta, Canada
• Victorian CarbonNet Project, Victoria, Australia
• Callide Oxyfuel Project, South East Queensland, Australia
• AEP Mountaineer 235-MWe CO₂ Capture and Storage Project

US Funding Grant

The Institute was awarded a grant from the US Department of State focused on sharing knowledge and expertise in support of CCS projects in developing countries. The US$500,000 grant will be used to accelerate a number of initiatives that the Institute is undertaking through the Clean Energy Ministerial Carbon Capture Use and Storage Action Group.

Business Plan

Download the Institute's business plan.

Annual Reviews

The Global CCS Institute Annual Review 2011
The Global CCS Institute Annual Review 2010

Fact Sheets

Download the Fact Sheet on The Global CCS Institute.
Download the Fact Sheet on Accelerating CCS through Knowledge Sharing.