The CCSA welcomes the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) ‘Progress in Reducing Emissions’ report and recognition of the important advances being made on deploying Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS).
This comes days after the launch of the Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy which helpfully set out CCUS’s central role in securing the future of UK industry, driving clean growth, and supporting high-quality jobs across the country.
The CCC rightly raises concerns that the window for deploying CCUS in line with the UK’s carbon budgets is narrowing. While recent announcements from government are very encouraging, the focus must now shift from ambition to delivery. Meeting the levels of CCUS and engineered greenhouse gas (GHG) removals required to stay on track with our net zero commitments demands urgent and sustained action.
In particular, the CCSA echoes the CCC’s calls for government to finalise support frameworks for engineered GHG removals, and to move forward with the deployment of industrial emitter projects.
This can be achieved by setting out next steps for utilising the storage capacity in HyNet and the East Coast Custer, reaching financial close on the Acorn project and Viking CCS, and outlining a clear future route to market for additional projects by establishing allocation rounds – all of which are vital to establishing a mature and competitive CCUS industry in the UK.
Olivia Powis, CCSA CEO, said:
“The CCC’s report is a clear signal that we must move beyond strategy and into action. Following the positive government commitments made during the Spending Review and Industrial Strategy, the CCUS industry is ready to deliver once Government sets out its next steps on allocation and provides long-term certainty on market mechanisms. This is not just about hitting climate targets, it’s about protecting UK industry, creating jobs and maintaining our position as a global leader in carbon capture and storage.”
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About the CCSA
CCUS, or Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, is a key low carbon solution – vital to meeting the UK’s statutory Net Zero target at least cost. CCUS enables industrial decarbonisation as well as the production of clean power, clean products (such as cement and chemicals) and clean hydrogen – which can also be used to decarbonise industry. In addition, CCUS also enables greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere through Direct Air Capture with Storage (DACS) or Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS).
The CCSA is the trade association accelerating the commercial deployment of CCUS, with offices in the UK and Belgium. We work with members, governments and other organisations to ensure CCUS is developed and deployed at the pace and scale necessary to meet net zero goals and deliver sustainable growth across regions and nations.
The CCSA currently has over 120 member companies who are active in exploring and developing different applications of carbon capture and removals, CO2 transportation by pipeline and ship, utilisation, geological storage, and other permanent storage solutions, end-users in the power, industry, waste management, fuels, and hydrogen production sectors, plus supply chain, engineering, construction and management, legal and financial consulting sectors.