CSLF TO HOLD MINISTERIAL MEETING ON CCS

Karen Frantz
GHG Monitor
11/01/13

The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), an international initiative focused on the development of carbon capture and sequestration technologies through collaborative efforts, will hold its fifth ministerial meeting in Washington, D.C., next week. The meeting, to be held Nov. 4-7, is intended to bring together energy ministers from 22 nations and the European Commission to discuss challenges facing CCS and to come up with plans for working together on the technology’s commercialization. According to a CSLF release, the meeting “will reaffirm that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critically important low-carbon technology with application broader than just coal power generation, and will call upon CSLF Ministers to support more coordinated near-term global actions to further develop and deploy CCS.”

Energy ministers set to attend the meeting represent 22 nations that are CSLF members, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, among several others invested in advancing CCS technology. The European Commission is also a member. Various CCS projects will also be represented at the meeting, including Kemper, Boundary Dam, Peterhead, Sleipner and others. The U.S. Department of Energy is hosting the meeting and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is expected to attend and moderate a discussion on building global momentum for CCS. 

The meeting will include a Stakeholders Forum among a group of corporate executives, international energy organizations and non-governmental organizations that will feature four roundtables in the realm of financial, communications, regulations and deployment. Topics that will be explored include why some projects reach final investment decisions while others do not; communicating about CCS’s value; economic and environmental regulation of capture, transport and storage; and demonstration projects in developing countries.