Europe must act on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) advice on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in order to achieve the reductions required by the Paris Climate Agreement, says former European Parliament Rapporteur Chris Davies. It may be possible to avoid its use in electricity production, although decarbonising power supply will be easier if the technology is deployed, but the Paris goals also require huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from industry and from methane heating systems. The IPCC report states that CCS is a technology which can be used for “decarbonisation” of power generation but it has not yet been proven commercially viable. Davies also supports the report’s recommendation that a UK state agency be created to build the first pipelines and let contracts for power stations.
Europe must act on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) advice on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in order to achieve the reductions required by the Paris Climate Agreement, says former European Parliament Rapporteur Chris Davies. The IPCC report states that CCS is a technology which can be used for “decarbonisation” of power generation but it has not yet been proven commercially viable. Davies also supports the report’s recommendation that a UK state agency be created to build the first pipelines and let contracts for power stations.