Poliy Brief: Carbon Capture and Storage in the global climate debate
German Environment Agency, 15. November 2023
This policy brief refers mainly to the German Environment Agency’s position paper on CCS in the national context and provides further thoughts on the international perspective. -> https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/carbon-capture-storage-diskussionsbeitrag
„In light of the overall picture, we suggest that the limited potential of storage facilities and resources should be reserved exclusively for absolutely unavoidable emissions, explicitly excluding fossil emissions. Especially because CCS will become indispensable as a part of negative emission technologies, climate talks should focus on this role of CCS alone, and foster cooperation on the requirements for transport, storage safety and monitoring. In order to establish a test case that serves this purpose, CCS for thermal waste treating plants seems to be a feasible and relevant pilot scheme. Waste+CCS (WACCS) would sequester emissions that are hard to abate at the end of a long value chain with the potential to achieve negative emissions in the future. Noting that not all countries operate these plants to the same extent, we would like to encourage dialogue and joint discussion of specific strategies for testing such CCS-pilot projects, addressing the following challenges and risks.“