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Technologies for carbon capture, utilisation and storage

As a signatory to the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, and in a June 2019 Amendment to the Climate Change Act, the UK has committed to an ambitious transformation of its economy and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. However, carbon-based fuels and platform chemicals will remain important to the economy. Carbon capture and storage could support this industrial need whilst reducing the UK's carbon emissions.

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What is the economic and environmental value of carbon capture and utilisation in the UK? Read the paper

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Niall Mac Dowell

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Niall Mac Dowell Professor of Future Energy Systems, Centre for Environmental Policy
Send email+44 (0)20 7594 9298

Location

16 Prince's Gardens
South Kensington Campus
Research interests
- energy systems
- CO2 capture
- transition to a low carbon economy