Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a ministerial-led initiative focused on the development of cost-effective technologies for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) for its transport and long-term safe storage. The mission of the CSLF is to facilitate the development and deployment of these technologies via collaborative efforts that address key technical, economic, and environmental obstacles. The CSLF also champions the need for legal, regulatory, financial, and institutional environments capable of supporting the deployment of CCS technologies.
Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS) Action Group
At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington DC on 19 and 20 July 2010, ministers pledged to establish a Carbon Capture Use and Storage action group to be led by the UK and Australia, to facilitate political and business leadership and develop a Global Strategic Implementation Plan to examine how to overcome key barriers to the deployment of Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS).
The action group comprises representatives of a number of governments and a range of international partners representing both industry and NGOs. At the 2011 Clean Energy Ministerial in Abu Dhabi, ministers of participating countries committed to making progress against eight recommendations designed to address key barriers to CCS deployment. These recommendations cover topics from financing, use and storage, and regulation, to knowledge sharing.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
At the 16th Conference of Parties held in Cancun in December 2010, a decision was adopted that carbon capture and storage in geological formations is eligible as a project activity under the Clean Development Mechanism, provided a number of remaining issues are addressed and resolved in a satisfactory manner.
DECC will be working with EU counterparts to establish a way of addressing these issues for the 17th Conference of Parties, to be held in Durban in 2011.
For full details, see the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, COP 16/CMP 6 webpages.
IEA Implementation Agreements
The UK supports analysis and research to further CCS as a subscribing member to both the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) and the IEA Clean Coal Centre Implementing Agreements.