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In a perspective released by the Institute, authors Ian Havercroft and Chris Consoli explain how amendments to the London Protocol has enhanced prospects to scale up CCS. With greater flexibility under the London Protocol, including transboundary movement of CO₂ aimed for storage now permitted, this perspective looks at how nations in Europe and Asia Pacific are responding to potential CCS opportunities provided with lessened regulatory barriers.

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In a report released by the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) titled ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’, authors – part of Working Group III – pointed to the critical role carbon capture and storage (CCS) will play as a climate solution, on the urgent path to limit global warming.

The Institute takes a closer look at this key IPCC report in a newly released brief, authored by our Senior Policy Adviser on International Climate Change, Noora Al Amer. In it, the Institute unpacks the details of the IPCC findings, highlighting:

• The emissions mitigation potential CCS will provide a wide range of sectors, further supporting pathways to net-zero
• Where CCS stands on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
• How scaling CCS deployment can vary based on region

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As part of our series Understanding Carbon Capture and Storage, this newly released two-pager highlights what some of the world's foremost climate and energy experts have said about CCS as a necessary and viable technology to help reach net-zero.

The factsheet contains quotes from:

• Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director, the International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Prof. Heleen De Coninck, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University, Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 4 of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C
• Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, U.S. Department of Energy, formerly Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
• Prof. Jin Hongguang, Member of China Academy of Sciences, Chair Commissioner, CCUS Professional Committee, Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences
• Dr. Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct, and non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia  University
• Prof. Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
• Prof. Niall Mac Dowell, Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, Imperial College London
• Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics
• Dr. Sally Benson, Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) continues to make significant progress around the world against a backdrop of greater climate action from countries and private companies. The Global Status of CCS 2021 demonstrates the critical role of CCS as nations and industry accelerate to net-zero.

The report provides detailed analyses of the global project pipeline, international policy, finance, and emerging trends. In addition, four regional overviews highlight the rapid development of CCS across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and nearby regions, and the Gulf Cooperation Council states.

The Global Status of CCS report shows that global storage capacity has increased 32% in the last year alone. There are now 135 commercial CCS facilities in the project pipeline (27 are fully operational) from a diverse range of sectors including cement, steel, hydrogen, power generation and direct air capture.

Download the full Global Status Report 2021 in Arabic.

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The Global Status of CCS report illustrates the critical role carbon capture and storage technology plays in reducing industrial emissions and documents the current and ongoing CCS efforts being undertaken to tackle climate change.

The Global Status of CCS factsheet highlights measures government and industry can take to achieve cost-effective net-zero emissions through CCS and also points to key milestones reached in the CCS space over the last year.

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Global Status of CCS - Factsheet - English

Global Status of CCS - Factsheet - Japanese

Global Status of CCS - Factsheet - Chinese

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) continues to make significant progress around the world against a backdrop of greater climate action from countries and private companies. The Global Status of CCS 2021 demonstrates the critical role of CCS as nations and industry accelerate to net-zero.

The report provides detailed analyses of the global project pipeline, international policy, finance, and emerging trends. In addition, four regional overviews highlight the rapid development of CCS across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and nearby regions, and the Gulf Cooperation Council states.

The Global Status of CCS report shows that global storage capacity has increased 32% in the last year alone. There are now 135 commercial CCS facilities in the project pipeline (27 are fully operational) from a diverse range of sectors including cement, steel, hydrogen, power generation and direct air capture.

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) networks linking emissions point sources to a CO₂ transport and storage hub is emerging as the lowest-cost and most cost-effective method of CCS development. As part of the Circular Carbon Economy: Keystone to Global Sustainability series with the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, this report reviews emissions and storage basins worldwide, seeking to link clusters of emissions-intensive regions to potential geologic storage basins.

The report is presented in two parts:

• In part one, using a single methodology to characterise global emissions and basins, the authors perform a high-level, regional analysis identifying potential CCS networks by linking suitable storage to intense emissions centres across the globe
• In part two the authors present a conceptual approach to designing a CO₂ transport network from distributed sources to a target geological formation for storage, outlining the selection of gas-phase and dense-phase pipeline transport as well as an approach to minimising the cost of pipelines over the network.

Key findings from the report include:

• Potential CCS networks can be identified in almost every industrialised region of the world.
• Those potential networks identified in this report can guide future detailed investigation and planning required for CCS network development.
• Each industrialised region of the world has access to storage resources ranked as highly suitable or suitable.
• The combination of emission sources in proximity to storage sinks means a global portfolio of CCS networks is technically possible. These networks provide the greatest opportunity to rapidly decarbonise large clusters of power and industrial sources.
• Inadequate characterisation of geologic storage resources is the critical limiting factor to CCS network development across the globe.
• Comprehensive national assessments are still needed for the majority of nations. Until these assessments are completed, insufficient understanding of geologic storage resources will remain a significant barrier to CCS network development.
• Pipeline and compression networks require the development of cost models for piping and compression systems for the specific country and local costs of energy and construction. This provides the quantitative basis for decisions in network design.

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The Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) is the carbon crediting scheme in Australia through which the Federal Government purchases lowest cost carbon abatement from a range of sources. The fund looks to provide a market-based mechanism that encourages the pursuit of general emissions reductions within the broader context of climate mitigation.

In 2020 the Australian Government’s Low Emissions Technology Statement identified carbon capture and storage (CCS) as one of several priority low emissions technologies. At the request of the government and against the backdrop of emerging projects, the Clean Energy Regulatory began developing a CCS method (or methodology) under the Emissions Reduction Fund. Inclusion under the ERF would allow CCS projects to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) and thereby generate income.

This brief from Senior Advocacy and Communications Adviser, Matt Steyn, and Principal Consultant Policy, Legal and Regulatory, Ian Havercroft, explains what the Emissions Reduction Fund is, examines how it works and explores the the inclusion of CCS as a methodology.

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Between 23 April and 21 May, 2021, the Global CCS Institute hosted a series of three webinars every other Friday from 10-11 am Eastern Time, titled The Carbon Capture and Storage 101 Webinars. The first webinar focused on “Introducing a CCS Project,” the second was on “CCS Infrastructure for a Net-Zero Future,” and the third was titled “CCS Policy for a Net-Zero Future.”

These webinars generated an extraordinary number of questions – 101 in total. Their breadth and depth emphasised the many technological, financial, geographical, social, and political aspects of CCS that must be met to achieve the scale-up required to manage climate change. These questions also clearly indicate the need for more educational materials on CCS.

This brief seeks to fill that void by answering the 101 questions from the CCS 101 webinars. It should be an especially effective educational tool because it deals with specific themes in the CCS universe that are either misunderstood, mischaracterized, or missing information to a very diverse audience composed of experts and non-experts alike. Indeed, questions came from industry representatives, academics, Capitol Hill staffers, members of the press, and the general public. Some were extremely technical and some quite general. Accordingly, some required detailed, nuanced answers and some no more than a few words. Regardless, with nearly 1000 people attending at least one webinar in the CCS 101 Series, it is likely that these questions represent the queries of a broad swath of the public interested in developing or investing in a CCS project. The answers provide a rich tableau of insights into the current status and future potential of CCS.

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CCS is one of many climate mitigating technologies that is mature, commercially available, and absolutely necessary to achieve global net-zero ambitions and a stable climate. The total installed CCS capacity must increase 100-fold by 2050 to limit global warming to below 2° Celsius.

This report summarises policy and legal factors that have a material impact on the investability of CCS projects and makes recommendations on how governments may facilitate greater private sector investment in CCS.

The report examines and covers:

• Financing CCS
• The development of CCS-specific legal and regulatory frameworks
• Recommendations addressing policy, finance and regulatory matters

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Fifty years ago this summer in the small town of Terrell, Texas, construction began on a new type of technological innovation called carbon capture and storage (CCS). The facility that would host this novelty was a natural gas processing plant that used pre-combustion carbon dioxide capture technology to separate anthropogenic CO₂ from its natural gas processing steps before transporting it to an oil field for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and storage. From that first facility to today, the term “CCS” has grown to encompass a global industry, with 26 CCS facilities currently in operation around the world that have safely captured and stored 300 million metric tonnes of CO₂.

In a new paper published in Volume 34,  Issue 7 of the Electricity Journal, Lessons captured from 50 years of CCS projects, authors Patricia Loria and Matt Bright give a history of the CCS industry and examine the lessons learned from the deployment of the current 26 operational facilities. Project developers contribute their insights, and the main opportunities and challenges are condensed to help guide the deployment of more CCS projects around the globe. Moreover, the paper highlights the work of the Global CCS Institute over the past eleven years in tracking projects through its CO₂RE database. The most important conclusion is that the 26 operational CCS facilities demonstrate that the technology has successfully been deployed to scale and can safely capture and store CO₂ critical for the success of any global climate change mitigation strategy.

The Global CCS Institute was invited to contribute this article to a special August, 2021 issue of the Electricity Journal focusing on CCS. The issue comprises 7 other articles from leading NGOs and researchers in the field of CCS.

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One model aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the International Energy Agency's Sustainable Development Scenario (IEA-SDS) requires 15% of the world’s emissions reductions to be achieved using CCS. The need for CCS in the IEA-SDS translates to a 100-fold increase in CCS capacity by 2050, for which this thought leadership report estimates the total capital requirement to be between US$655 bn and US$1,280 bn.

The report discusses the role of governments in creating an enabling investment environment for CCS and makes several recommendations for how to unlock private finance for projects.

The report examines:

• The potential for project finance to greatly accelerate investment in CCS capacity
• The application of green bonds to CCS projects in hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, fertilisers and chemicals
• The potential for climate finance to support CCS deployment in developing countries

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