Jim Skea, the head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned on Tuesday that scaling up carbon capture and storage still faces significant challenges.
This photograph taken on February 27, 2024, shows the the Heidelberg Materials cement plant in Antoing, during a press visit. The cement plant intends to equip it's kiln with a carbon capture facility, which will enable the Antoing plant to achieve a net-zero carbon balance.
The captured carbon dioxide, which can also be captured directly from the atmosphere, is then compressed and transported via pipeline, ship, rail or truck to be used in a range of applications, or permanently stored underground. Skea's comments came during the first day of International Energy Week, formerly known as International Petroleum Week — a three-day global energy conference in London that convenes senior industry figures.
Alongside the net-zero strategies of some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, CCS features prominently in the climate plans of many world governments.to "transition away" from fossil fuels, in a text that the host nation hailed as the "UAE Consensus."that the deal placed carbon capture alongside renewables as technologies that can deliver a shift away from fossil fuels.