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Focus on private sector financing for climate technologies
15th May 2015
The Institute attended the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) meeting for Network members in Bangkok over 28-29 April 2015. The CTCN is the operational arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
Tempered optimism in lead up to COP21 climate talks
15th May 2015
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) convened a forum on 23 April in Washington, DC to examine the issues, options and priorities for the upcoming Paris climate talks. In this insight, Victor Der,...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
Carbon storage in the Baltic – new insights from the Bastor2 study
15th April 2015
This Insight, written by one of the study's authors, Per Arne Nilsson, is adapted from the Executive Summary to the Final Summary Report from the Elforsk Bastor2 study. The five part report series was undertaken...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, Health, law and regulation, Policy, Public engagement, safety and environment, use and storage (CCUS)
Adding CCS to the energy mix in the UAE
15th March 2015
The UAE Ministry of Energy supports the development and deployment of CCUS technology and projects that can transform the energy sector while effectively supporting global efforts to combat climate change. The following Insight by His...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
Which low carbon technology is now a reality?
15th March 2015
With fossil fuels expected to supply over 70% of the world's energy needs by 2040, we face some urgent questions: where should efforts be focused in reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Which technologies hold the most...
Topic(s): Capacity development, Carbon capture, Economics, Engineering and project delivery, law and regulation, Policy, Public engagement, use and storage (CCUS)
Pumping CO2 underground can help fight climate change. Why is it stuck in second gear?
15th March 2015
This article by Howard Herzog, Senior Research Engineer at MIT was published in The Conversation US on March 12 2015. It is republished here with permission. The first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage operation at a...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
European CCS beyond Road and the UK, opportunities in the Baltic
15th March 2015
The European carbon capture and storage (CCS) story is often framed in the context of the ROAD project in the Netherlands and the various CCS projects under development in the UK, the most advanced of...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Economics, use and storage (CCUS)
US Senator Manchin and Richard Gephardt to headline Institute's annual Americas Forum
15th January 2015
US Senator Joe Manchin (Democrat – West Virginia) and former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt will headline a roster of expert speakers and panelists at the Institute’s Fourth Annual Americas Forum: Call to Action on...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Domestic policy, Economics, Energy security, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
CCS outcomes from COP 20
15th January 2015
The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Lima, Peru on 1-12 December 2014. Here, thousands of delegates from...
Topic(s): Communication, Economics, law and regulation, Policy, Public engagement