CCS Public Workshops
CARBON CAPTURE & SEQUESTRATION PUBLIC WORKSHOPS
New York City: March 5, 2009
Bloomberg National Headquarters
731 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor Auditorium
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Washington D.C.: March 6, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2322
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The Pew Center co-sponsored two East Coast workshops exploring issues related to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The events, organized by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund, contributed to the public understanding of and dialogue regarding the important role of CCS in lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
CCS is a key technology in the portfolio of low-carbon technologies necessary to achieve significant reductions in global GHG emissions. The process of CCS entails capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large stationary sources, such as power plants and refineries, and injecting the captured CO2 into deep underground formations for permanent retention, thereby keeping it out of the atmosphere.
The workshops featured speakers who are leading experts on CCS from academia, industry, finance, government, and the environmental policy field. The speakers provided a comprehensive overview of CCS, including:
- An explanation of what CCS is and how it works
- The potential for CCS to provide significant, cost-effective GHG emission reductions
- The technology behind CCS, real-world experience with this technology, and the scientific/engineering challenges that remain
- The regulatory framework and economic incentives necessary to facilitate CCS deployment