The Paris agreement calls for emission pathways consistent with ‘holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C’.
According to the more recent IPCC Assessment Report, the longer the delay in the deployment of key mitigation technologies such as geological storage of CO2, the more expensive and challenging it will be to maintain global average temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius.
In order to meet the Paris Agreement emissions targets, all available clean energy and mitigation tools will be needed.
Carbon dioxide Capture and geological Storage (CCS) has been recognised by national governments, intergovernmental organisations and major civil society stakeholders as an essential and least-cost pathway to reducing CO2 emissions from the power and industrial sectors, and is flagged as one of the three main climate-change mitigation measures together with increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix and improving energy efficiency.
The majority of scenarios show it would be extremely challenging to deliver sufficient decarbonisation without CCS.
CO2GeoNet is a pan-European scientific Association, legally registered in France, which joins together 28 partners from 21 European countries, ranging from national geological surveys, through to research institutes and universities, all with a high international profile and critical mass in CO2 geological storage research.
CO2GeoNet is acknowledged as the European scientific authority dealing with all aspects of geological storage of CO2. Through its activities of collaborative research, information and communication, training and scientific advice, CO2GeoNet is durably engaged in enabling the safe and efficient deployment of the CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technology in order to mitigate climate change and ocean acidification.
CO2GeoNet is contributing, in collaboration with other international organisations, to side-events and a booth at COP23.
Our role in COP23 is to provide clear and impartial scientific knowledge and to engage in discussions with negotiators and the civil society.
Our aim is to communicate on CCS as a proven and safe technology, which is vital for reducing CO2 emissions and completing the climate change mitigation portfolio.
Take a browse through this website and access to presentations and materials made available during the above mentioned events.
Thematic focus: Climate mitigation, CCS, CCU, CO2 intensive power and industry, CO2 infrastructure
Event description:
Radically reducing CO2 levels is vital to tackling climate change; in achieving the ‘well below 2°C’ climate target CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) is indispensable. CCS is the only established measure that tackles large industrial emissions: developing CO2 transport and storage networks is a crucial piece of the climate puzzle. Bottom-up initiatives in industrial regions are needed to achieve low-carbon job creation instead of high- carbon closures.
With industries and governments as main contributors, the discussion will explore ways in creating safe, well-regulated and highly efficient CO2 networks that work for communities, employers and the climate. Decarbonising the industrial inputs for the low carbon society of the future can help provide jobs and better living standards for industrial communities.
Lead organiser: CO2GeoNet Association
Co-organisers: Bellona, CCSA, EERA CCS, GCCSI, ZEP & IEA GHG R&D Programme
Event description, objectives and outcomes:
We need to store carbon dioxide in order to meet the Paris Agreement targets. This event will share knowledge on ready-to-go and emerging technologies to mitigate our CO2 emissions. Technologies presented will include geological storage of CO2 and utilisation of CO2 for essential commodities such as building materials. This event will have four high-level speakers presenting: CO2 storage is an essential part of meeting the Paris Agreement targets; CO2storage flagship projects; how to scale up CCS and make it fly; case study of emerging CO2 Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) opportunities. The event will conclude with a 25 minute discussion session. The main objective of the event is to share knowledge on how we can store CO2 to meet our emission reduction targets and to provide a forum for discussion.
Context:
Meeting the Paris Agreement targets will almost certainly require negative emissions and CCS is currently the only option to achieve this at large scale.
CCS is also the only currently viable option to decarbonise the production of commodities such as cement, iron and steel (this is because much of the CO2produced is unavoidably generated by their production processes), these commodities will likely remain irreplaceable for the global economic growth in the medium to long term, including for the deployment of renewable energy technologies. Replacing carbon heavy materials with carbon negative materials offers the opportunity to reduce emissions, with technologies for low carbon cement ready to go and new innovative opportunities to use CO2 continually emerging. Replacing materials can be part of our strategy to reduce emissions and even to achieve negative emissions
Co-organisers: CO2GeoNet (lead), European Business Council for Sustainable Energy (e5), IPIECA & Taiwan Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation Association (TCCSUA)
Event description, objectives and outcomes:
The purpose of carbon dioxide capture and geological storage (CCS) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as a climate change mitigation activity. However, given the relatively high costs currently associated with CCS, coupling CCS with Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) could provide a critical financial incentive to facilitate development of CCS projects in the near term.
In the 2016 study "Best Practice in Transitioning from CO2 EOR to CO2 Storage", which the CO2 Capture Project commissioned ERM to conduct for us, we found that there are no specific technological barriers or challenges in transitioning and converting a pure CO2 EOR operation into a CO2 storage operation. At the same time, there are a number of legal, regulatory and economic differences which must be addressed if an EOR project is to serve as a CCS project.
In 2017, the CO2 Capture Project, with the help of ERM, conducted a deeper analysis of these issues in two jurisdictions: Texas in the U.S.A. and Alberta in Canada. We present these results at this side event.
Panelists will comment on the issues raised by these CO2 Capture Project's studies and discuss the state of implementation issues for CCS around the world.
Organiser: CO2 Capture Project - CCP4
Information is given for non-specialists on the science behind CO2 geological storage and why we need it, as a credible and flexible technology to limit emissions of antropic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so helping reducing global changes.
Rock samples, videos and brochures (downloadable in many languages) are available at the booth.
Co-organisers: CO2GeoNet and Taiwan Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation Association (TCCSUA)
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