The US government plans to sponsor half of the 20 commercial-scale demonstrations of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology that the world’s biggest industrialized nations have collectively pledged to get under way in the next decade. Heads of the G8 nations announced their commitment to deploy CCS as part of their goal to slash their nations’ carbon emissions in half from current levels by 2050.
According to a joint communiqué issued at their 6–9 July summit in Japan, the G8 leaders said they “strongly support the launching of 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects globally by 2010 … with a view to beginning broad deployment of CCS by 2020.” Both the number of and the timetable for the demonstrations are taken from a report by the International Energy Agency, prepared at the request of the G8 leaders. It is just 1 of 17 “technology roadmaps” that the IEA said will need...
