In an effort to stay ahead of the December climate summit in Copenhagen, international energy and environment Ministers are meeting in London in November to promote international partnerships on carbon capture and storage. Ministers from over twenty countries will meet to discuss the G8’s plan to open twenty carbon capture and demonstration projects by 2010. The Carbon Sequestration Leadership forum was hosted by Norway and the United Kingdom and hopes to find additional and innovative means to store and capture carbon before it reaches the atmosphere and contributes to climate change and global warming.
The group aims to explore the idea of using the North Sea to as a carbon storage location. The North Sea is thought to have huge potential when it comes to the storage of carbon dioxide. The meeting hopes to ensure that the exploration and development of the project is carried out in a safe and efficient manner, and that it works in conjunction with other current uses of the North Sea.
The technology of carbon capture and storage traps carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels by power plants and other industrial plants and stations. The idea is to capture these gases and then store them in the ground in deep formations. The United Kingdom plans to showcase four demonstrations of the technology and how it works during the meeting.
Industry experts say that there is potential for the North Sea to house at least a hundred years of carbon dioxide emissions from the United Kingdom’s power fleet. They say that CCS technology is currently the only viable option to slow carbon emissions from entering the environment.
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