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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) usually refers to the mechanical capture of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants or other industrial sources. The carbon dioxide is typically captured before the emissions leave the smokestack, generally with a sorbent chemical. The liquified carbon dioxide is then pumped into underground aquifers and other geological formations for long-term storage. CCS is not regarded as geoengineering under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) definition, but is closely linked to a number of geoengineering technologies such as Bioenegy with CCS (BECCS) and Direct Air Capture (DAC).
Product details
Date of Publication
January 2021
Publisher
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Number of Pages
4
Licence
Language of publication
English
Table of contents
- Description and purpose of the technology
- Actors involved
- Impacts of the technology
- Reality check
- Further reading
- Endnotes