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as part of a portfolio of mitigation
options to address climate policy
targets are greater than the risks
associated with attempting to
develop it.
• In particular, CCS should be
considered a critically important part
of any strategy for limiting
temperature rise to 2°C, and even
more so for limiting temperature rise
to 1.5°C.
• Pursuing CCS requires a whole-chain,
innovation systems approach,
including coordination of actors and
infrastructure.
• There is an important active role for
governments in such an approach.
• Legislative and regulatory
frameworks are crucial, but CCS
systems are still emerging – hence
review and adaptation are important.
• The process of policy development
and CCS implementation should be
supported by robust and transparent
risk management practices,
reflecting and building on those
employed to date, and by genuine
public engagement. Critical issues
include transparently verifying that
CO can be safely stored in any given
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project, and demonstrating the full
life cycle sustainability of biomass
used in bioenergy with carbon
capture and storage (BECCS)
applications, including with
appropriate certification processes.
• CCS should be seen as an important
component of a portfolio of
mitigation strategies. Other low-
carbon supply side technologies will
also make critical contributions, and
increasing energy and material
efficiency is likely to be a key
“no-regrets” option. Our report
examines policy issues in the
deployment of CCS by attempting
to draw lessons from case studies of
other analogous technologies and
technological systems; reviewing the
arbon capture and storage overcome if it were to be widely current status of CCS systems and
(CCS) refers to a set of deployed. Policy makers’ decisions as policies in a variety of countries; and
technologies that may to whether to pursue CCS should be providing analysis of integrated
offer the potential for based on a judgement as to whether energy systems modelling (including
C large-scale removal of CO the risks and uncertainties associated our own scenarios) as evidence of
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emissions from a range of processes with attempting to deploy CCS the possible role of CCS in meeting
– potentially including the generation outweigh the risks of not having it climate policy targets.
of electricity and heat, industrial available as part of a portfolio of
processes, and the production of mitigation options, in future years. THE FOLLOWING LESSONS ARE
hydrogen and synthetic fuels. CCS has DRAWN FROM OUR REVIEW OF
both proponents and opponents. Like ON THE BASIS OF THE ANALOGOUS TECHNOLOGIES:
other emerging low carbon AVAILABLE EVIDENCE, • Stimulating innovation in low carbon
technologies, CCS is not without risks OUR HEADLINE CONCLUSIONS technologies requires an innovation
or uncertainties, and there are various ARE THAT: systems approach that considers
challenges that would need to be • The risks of CCS not being available multiple feedbacks along the

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