The importance of deploying carbon capture and storage technology worldwide is not getting the attention it needs, according to a new report from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Energy Center, the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Imperial College London. The report contains the conclusion of the CCS Forum, held in London in February. “In all sectors pertaining to CCS, it was agreed that translating major research findings to the market often takes many years and that developing a systematic procedure for the acceleration of the transition of academic research to pilot- and demonstration-scales is essential,” the report says.
Use of CCS is imperative if the world is to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement on climate change, which was adopted last December at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the groups said. “”The COP21 target of limiting the average global temperature rise to 1.5oC means that the decarbonisation of industrial emissions, from whatever process, must be significantly accelerated. We no longer have the luxury of prevarication. CCS offers an opportunity to decouple the use of fossil fuels from climate change,” IChemE Energy Center Chair Stefaan Simons said in a press release.
