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The UNFCCC Technology and Finance Mechanisms
15th June 2015
The Institute is closely engaged with all aspects of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process as they relate to carbon capture and storage (CCS). We are particularly interested in the interaction...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
“Is CCS/CCUS ready for prime time?” subject of Pittsburgh CCUS Conference
15th June 2015
The Institute’s Neil Wildgust, Principal Manager – Storage and Ron Munson, Principal Manager – Capture presented the Global Status of CCS and the reasons why CCS/CCUS is ‘ready for prime time’ at the Fourteenth Annual...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Communication, use and storage (CCUS)
Pilot scale testing critical to advance second generation capture technologies
15th June 2015
Advances in carbon capture technologies were a major topic of discussion at the Fourteenth Annual Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Conference, held 28 April – 1 May in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this Insight, the...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
Progressing carbon capture technologies for the cement industry
15th June 2015
Results of post-combustion pilot tests conducted at Norcem’s cement plant in Brevik were presented during the International CCS Conference held in Langesund on 20–21 May 2015. More than 130 representatives of the carbon capture and...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, CO2 capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
The role of Carbon Capture and Storage in a decarbonised world
15th May 2015
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is a global initiative coordinated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)[1]. Last year the Pathways to Deep Decarbonization, 2014 Report was released, which provides a comprehensive...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
Global storage readiness assessment
15th May 2015
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment must be rapidly accelerated if the world is to meet its intended goal of limiting temperature increases to two degrees celsius. For accelerated CCS deployment suitable storage sites must...
Topic(s): Capacity development, CO2 storage, Engineering and project delivery, law and regulation, Policy
The Shell Peterhead CCS Project – an update
15th May 2015
Shell, with strategic support from SSE, are looking to develop the world’s first full-scale gas carbon capture and storage (CCS) project – the Peterhead CCS Project. The proposed project would see 10 to 15 million...
Topic(s): CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transport, Engineering and project delivery, Public engagement
A review of the CO2GeoNet 10th Annual Forum
15th May 2015
CO2GeoNet, the European network on the geological storage of CO2 held their 10th Annual Open Forum "CO2 storage - the cornerstone of our low carbon future” from 11-12th May 2015, in San Servolo, Italy. In...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, law and regulation, Policy, Public engagement, use and storage (CCUS)
Advances in CCS monitoring featured in new video online
15th May 2015
This insight, co-written by John Hamling, Senior Research Manager of the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota, and Neil Wildgust, the Global CCS Institute’s Principal Manager – Storage, outlines how...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
Global warming caught in midst of American cultural divide
15th May 2015
American attitudes about the environment have been surveyed for more than 20 years by a public opinion research company, Gallup Inc, headquartered in Washington, DC. In this insight, Diane Teigiser, the Institute’s Senior Advisor for...
Topic(s): Health, Public engagement, safety and environment
Aquistore to provide valuable CO2 storage research
15th May 2015
Aquistore, Canada’s first deep saline aquifer storage site, is an example of Canada’s continued leadership in CCS technology development. This insight by the Institute’s Neil Wildgust, Principal Manager – Storage, outlines the role of Aquistore...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
East and Southeast Asian countries unite to drive carbon dioxide storage
15th May 2015
In this Insight the Global CCS Institute's Chris Consoli, Senior Adviser for Storage (Asia Pacific) discusses methodologies for selecting geological carbon dioxide storage and estimating storage capacity and their relevance to East and Southeast Asia. A...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)