The UK has had to cancel a number of carbon capture and storage
projects, not least because the technology is controversial.
Many critics say that it is expensive and destined to fail
because CO2 captured and stored below ground or sea beds will
eventually escape. With such trouble at home, the government’s
Department of Energy and Climate Change is now looking further
afield to help deploy the technology that it says can help
reduce industrial CO2 emissions linked to global warming and
climate change. This week it announced a £60 million ($96
million) fund to support CCS in emerging countries. The money is
part of the $200 million that the Carbon Capture, Use and
Storage Action Group is trying to raise. DECC Climate Change
Minister Greg Barker noted in a press release, “We recognise
that it is important to ensure CCS is deployed in developing as
well as developed countries. The funding that the UK has
committed today will support the development of new partnerships
and capacity building activities in emergin