Kaminskaite- Salters, Giedre --- "Implementing the carbon capture and storage regime in the UK: experiences from a front-runner country" [2012] ELECD 1215; in Peeters, Marjan; Stallworthy, Mark; de Cendra de Larragán, Javier (eds), "Climate Law in EU Member States" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) 261

Book Title: Climate Law in EU Member States

Editor(s): Peeters, Marjan; Stallworthy, Mark; de Cendra de Larragán, Javier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781002773

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: Implementing the carbon capture and storage regime in the UK: experiences from a front-runner country

Author(s): Kaminskaite- Salters, Giedre

Number of pages: 16

Extract:

12. Implementing the carbon capture
and storage regime in the UK:
experiences from a front-runner
country1 Implementing the CCS regime in the UK




Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters

1. INTRODUCTION

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies enable the carbon dioxide
from fossil fuel power stations and other large point sources (such as
cement manufacture installations) to be captured, transported and stored
safely in underground geological formations.2 Analysis by the International
Energy Agency (IEA) shows that CCS will need to deliver almost 20 per
cent of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions that must be
achieved in 2050 if greenhouse gas concentrations are to be stabilized in the
atmosphere at an acceptable level.3 The CCS technologies can potentially,
therefore, represent an integral part of the global response to the climate
change challenge, and demonstration of the full chain of CCS technologies
at scale arguably should be actioned as a policy priority. At the same time,
CCS policy development must take into account and mitigate, to the extent
possible, potential environmental health and safety risks associated with
leakage of carbon dioxide, as failure to do so could not only cause local
damage and negative public perception of CCS technologies, but reverse
any positive effects of CCS on the global climate.4


1 The opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of the organi-

zations she is attached to (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets and Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment).
2 Department of ...