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Institute submission to Australian Government review of climate policies
9th May 2017
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
On 5 May the Institute lodged a submission in response to the Australian Government’s discussion paper on its review of climate change policies. This review is being undertaken at a critical time in the Australian energy and climate policy space, and is a stocktake of the Australian Government’s actions towards achieving Australia’s 2030 emission reduction targets and commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Institute’s submission points out the recent progress on large scale CCS facilities around the world and the important role of CCS in meeting Australia’s long-term emission reduction targets in a range of sectors. Central to this is providing policy parity to CCS, which will ensure emission reduction targets are met at least cost and with the optimal mix of technologies. The submission also makes broader recommendations for the Government’s review including the need to set legislated long-term targets that are supported by interim carbon budgets, periodic reporting of progress against targets and better coordination of state, territory and federal government policy.
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2016年全球碳捕集与封存现状报告 着重介绍了一些2016年实现的重大里程碑式成果，和在2016年已经进入运行或者很快就要开始运行的重要项目。2016年全球碳捕集与封存现状报告 由5个独立的报告组成，包括一份可以对外公开的报告摘要和研究院会员专享的系列报告。
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本年度のサマリーレポートは、2016年にCCS主要プロジェクトにおいて達成された業績と2016年に操業を開始また操業開始間近の主要プロジェクトにフォーカスをしています。本レポートと同時に刊行された「世界のCCSの動向：2016」は、5章から成り、このサマリーリポートの内容を含むより詳細な情報が網羅されています。
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Global CCS Institute CCS readiness Index
17th November 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critical for meeting international climate change targets, and therefore deployment must be both rapid and global. To date, deployment has been limited to only a few countries and industries, with several factors slowing further progress.
The Global CCS Institute (Institute) has developed a ‘CCS Readiness Index’ (CCS Index) which quantifies these factors, based on assessment criteria across four indicators — inherent interest, policy, legal and regulatory (legal) and storage — which reflect major barriers or enablers for the deployment of CCS.
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The Global Status of CCS: 2016 Summary Report
15th November 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
The Global Status of CCS: 2016 highlights a number of significant operational milestones reached in 2016 and key projects that have either entered operation in 2016, or are very close to commencing operation. The Global Status of CCS: 2016 is comprised of five unique publications including a Summary Report available to the public and a series of reports developed exclusively for Institute Members.
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Proceedings from the 2016 CCS Costs Workshop
14th July 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
The fourth meeting of the CCS Cost Workshop (also known as the Expert Group on CCS Costs) was held on March 23‐24, 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.This function is now designated as the CCS Cost Network under the auspices of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Programme.
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Introduction to industrial carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a process used to capture carbon dioxide gas (CO2) that is produced by power stations or other types of industrial facilities. To keep CO2 out of the atmosphere, it is captured from the power plant or industry, transported, and securely stored underground, permanently.
One of the major benefits of CCS as an emissions reduction technology is that it can be applied to different types of CO2 emissions sources, particularly those with very large volumes of emissions, such as power plants and some industrial facilities.
Importantly, CCS is a proven technology that is already in operation around the world, in a number of industrial sectors. These industrial applications are the main focus of this report, and some of them date back as far as the 1970s and 1980s.
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The CarbonNet Project: development of a CO2 specification for a CCS hub network
25th May 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 hubs, CO2 transport
The Global CCS Institute is supporting the development of the CarbonNet Project through a series of reports and enable the sharing of knowledge throughout its development. The CarbonNet Project, located in the Victoria, Australia is in its feasibility phase. It is planning the development of a hub-based network that will centre on a large capacity pipeline (up to 5 million tonnes per annum) to deep, secure storage sites in the offshore Gippsland Basin.
A critical aspect of hub-based network projects in general is the complex process of gathering multiple sources of CO2 (e.g. coal-fired power stations, natural gas processing, etc.), each with unique properties, into a single pipeline and into a storage site. This report explores the details of different specifications from the various potential capture methods and feedstock, which could come together and how that could impact the specifications of infrastructure and the storage site itself.
The report outlines the lower and upper bounds of the potential CO2 specifications a hub project could encounter and proposes technically achievable limitations on the whole of project chain. This includes source proponents’ requirement, pipeline integrity and composition, requirements of the storage site, as well as health, safety and environment factors. Finally, the report outlines the techno-economic trade-off between additional processing for the CO2 sources and the impact on transport and storage.
By undertaking these studies in the early phase of project development, barriers such as restrictive specifications can be minimised and this could reduce costs overall, whilst increasing the viability of the multi-user system- the key platform for any hub-based network project.
This report is a product of work undertaken by Parsons Brinckerhoff with inputs from the CarbonNet Project team.
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“世界のCCSの動向「第3章CCS技術」”は、CO2回収コストの削減と、CO2貯留資源の評価を中心に、CCS技術チェーン（回収、輸送、貯留）について考察したものである。CO2回収、輸送、貯留についての研究・開発に関心のある人々にとって最も価値ある内容となっている。
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2015 situation report on the European Large Scale Demonstration Projects Network. Public summary
11th May 2016
Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
Established in 2009, the European CCS Demonstration Project Network (The Network), has been a unique knowledge-sharing effort aimed towards development and deployment of the CCS technology. The Network currently consists of four CCS projects in Europe: former Compostilla (Spain), Don Valley (UK), ROAD (The Netherlands) and Sleipner (Norway).
This is the third report of a series that cover technology progress of different parts of the CCS chain, updates on regulatory developments, summary of efforts related public engagement, costs and knowledge-sharing beyond the Network. Information in this report is based on aggregate information that projects released at the knowledge sharing events as well as through the Information and Experience Gathering (IEG) survey, a Network-developed tool for knowledge sharing.
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“世界のCCSの動向「第2章プロジェクト・政策・市場」”は、世界の主要なCCSプロジェクトと政策の進展、および地域的特色（南北アメリカ、アジア太平洋、欧州、中東、アフリカ）について詳細に考察したものである。また、大規模CCSプロジェクト及び注目すべきプロジェクトデータについて総合的な考察を行っている。
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“世界のCCSの動向「第1章 国際会議」”は、気候変動対策の活動を推進するための国際的な交渉の枠組みの必要性、2015年12月のパリCOP21への道のり、および気候関連活動とCCSの世界的な取り組みの重要性について考察したものである。
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