CCS IN THE NEWS

Nature Newsblog

Putting the carbon back.

The hundred billion tonne challenge
When will coal-fired power plants start storing away their carbon?

Black is the new green
Enriching the world's soils with charcoal

EDITORIAL Capturing carbon
Sequestration of greenhouse gases could play an important role in capping emissions.

BBC News

Scientist hopes for CO2 storage. The war on climate change can only be won by burying CO2 emissions under ground, says the UK's Chief Scientist, Sir David King.

How coal is cleaning up its act. By Mark Kinver, BBC News science and nature reporter

Scientist hopes for CO2 storage. (*.wmv Video news footage) The process, which involves injecting harmful CO2 emissions into underground rock, is used in Algeria (In-Salah Project). Roger Harrabin reports.

Channel 4 News

Cleaner coal? Can coal make a comeback as an important part of the power mix thanks to new technologies that are allowing it to clean up its act? This report visits the Dakota Gasification Plant and follows the CO2 pipeline to the Weyburn Field. CO2 produced from the Dakota Gasification plant is being piped to Weyburn and used in an enhanced oil recovery project. (Click here for more information on the IEA GHG Weyburn Project).
Climate Change - Feeling the heat (list of articles from Channel 4 News)

New Scientist

Clean energy special: Going underground, by Emma Young. 3 September 2005, Magazine issue 2515

IEA GHG Links

a central source of information on CO2 Capture and Storage Research, Development and Demonstration (R, D & D);

IEA GHG's global database of large stationary point sources of CO2 emissions.

Research project investigating the sequestration of CO2 in an underground geological formation in Ketzin, Germany

European Network on CO2 Capture & Storage

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Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Centre (CDIAC)

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Climate Ark Climate Change Search Facility

E.ON

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Energy Developments Ltd (Australia)

FACE Foundation (Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emissions)

Federation Internationale de L'Automobile FIA

Finnish Forest Research Institute METLA

World Bank Global Environment Facility (GEF)

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA

IPCC Home Page (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

Working Group I - Science of Climate Change

Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Raven Ridge Resources -Coalbed Methane and Coal Mine Methane Development Worldwide

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) UNEP

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC

Wind Energy Association - European, American

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

World Wide Fund for Nature Global Network (WWF)

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Ministerio de Energia y Petroleo (Venezuela)

RITE (Japan)

TEKES (National Technology Agency of Finland)

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