CIAO DATE: 12/2012
November 2009
Asia Society and the Center for American Progress, together with partners Monitor Group and Dr. S. Julio Friedmann of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, released a new report, “A Roadmap for U.S.-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration.” The report provides a framework for long-term bilateral cooperation in the development, demonstration and deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies. The report identifies three specific areas of collaboration with China on CCS and outlines how such partnership would accelerate CCS deployment in the United States by five to ten years while generating jobs and consumer savings. Since both the United States and China rely heavily on coal as an energy source, addressing emissions from coal combustion is a necessary component of a portfolio approach to tackling climate change. Carbon capture and sequestration is a process that mitigates harmful greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use by separating and capturing carbon dioxide from large point sources such as coal-fired power plants and storing it from the atmosphere through underground geological formations.
Resource link: A Roadmap for U.S.-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration [PDF] - 1.2M