China has started work on building the first of 80,000 large-scale carbon capture and storage plants, with the others at varying stages of approval, said Tony Zhang, senior adviser at the Global CCS Institute. Once operational, the Yanchang Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project in the Shaanxi Province is expected to capture up to 800,000 tons of CO2 annually – the equivalent of up to eight fewer cars on the road – and turn it into gas fuel. The announcement followed this month's opening of the world's first direct air capture commercial plant in Switzerland, with a second due to open in Houston, Texas this year. Carbon capture must be part of climate change response: IEA The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary part of combating climate change. Australia's ambassador for the environment, Patrick Suckling, said that about $20bn had been spent on CCS, compared with $80bn on renewable energy. Chevron is close to starting up the world's largest CCS operation on an island off Western Australia, where CO2 will be stripped from natural gas and injected underground.
China has started work on building the first of up to eight large-scale carbon capture and storage plants, with the others at varying stages of approval, said Tony Zhang, senior adviser at the Global CCS Institute. Once operational, the Yanchang Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project in the Shaanxi Province is expected to capture up to 800,000 tons of CO2 annually – the equivalent of 80,000 fewer cars on the road – and turn it into gas fuel. The announcement followed this month's opening of the world's first direct air capture commercial plant in Switzerland, with a second due to open in Houston, Texas this year. Carbon capture must be part of climate change response: IEA The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary part of combating climate change. Australia's ambassador for the environment, Patrick Suckling, said that about $20bn had been spent on CCS, compared with $80bn on renewable energy. Chevron is close to starting up the world's largest CCS operation on an island off Western Australia, where CO2 will be stripped from natural gas and injected underground.