The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a Ministerial-level international climate change initiative that is focused on the development of improved 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 such technologies via collaborative efforts that address key technical, economic, and environmental obstacles. The CSLF will also promote awareness and champion legal, regulatory, financial, and institutional environments conducive to such technologies.
The 3rd CSLF Ministerial Meeting, London, 12-13 October 2009
As part of the latest CSLF meeting hosted by the UK, the 3rd CSLF Ministerial Meeting took place in London between 12-13 October. International energy and environment Ministers met to move international collaboration on carbon capture and storage forward ahead of the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen. The aim was to build on the foundations of the G8’s ambition to launch 20 CCS demonstration projects globally by 2010, and to endorse carbon capture and storage technologies as a key component of international plans to combat climate change.
Participants
The event, hosted by the UK and Norway, brought together 20 Heads of Delegation, including 15 Ministers, CEOs and delegates representing industry, NGOs and civil society.
Outcomes
The Communiqué was unanimously agreed and the main outcomes are:
- agreement that more than 20 industrial scale CCS demonstrations could be needed by 2020, including in developing countries, with knowledge sharing between projects;
- announcements totalling USD$3 million of financial support for a CSLF capacity building program to enable developing countries to host demonstrations and prepare for rapid CCS deployment once it's proven;
- the strongest signal yet, from developed and developing countries alike, that CCS must be incentivised as part of a global climate deal in Copenhagen this December.
Key documents considered by Ministers and published at the meeting were:
Other information
Ed Miliband video message on the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF)
Next Steps
Key areas of work to be taken forward by the CSLF Policy and Technical Groups and Task Forces (as agreed in the Communiqué) are:
- Development of business models for commercial CCS;
- Knowledge sharing principles; and
- Implementation of a capacity building program for developing country members.
Next Ministerial Meeting
Chinese Minister WAN Gang announced that China would host the 4th Ministerial Meeting in 2011/12.