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| Titel |
CGS Europe - A pan-European coordination action on CO2 Geological Storage |
| VerfasserIn |
Gregor Goetzl, Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol, Rowena Stead, Vit Hladik |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2011
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250053082
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The EU has made significant progress in CCS as a bridging technology for combating climate
change, but this must now accelerate and be spread evenly throughout EU Member States and
Associated Countries. This means supporting the 10-12 large-scale demos in Europe from all
possible angles, so as to promote commercial deployment from 2020. In this context, the
CO2GeoNet, CO2NET EAST and ENeRG networks are joining forces, pooling their
expertise and building on their networking experience to form CGS Europe, a unique
concerted European reference point on CO2 storage.
The CO2 Geological Storage (CGS) part of the CCS chain deserves special attention
because of its site-specific and delicate nature (wide range of scientific aspects, regulations
still being developed, necessity to guarantee safety and efficiency over at least 1000 years, not
yet fully proven, local acceptance issues, etc.). In this context, a three-year Coordination
Action, CGS Europe, was launched on 1st November 2010. Financed by the EC FP7
programme the objective of CGS Europe is to build a credible, independent and
representative pan-European scientific body of expertise on CO2 geological storage that
will:
Instigate a durable networking of research capacity on CO2 storage in all the
relevant EU Member States and Associated Countries;
Liaise and coordinate its activities with other stakeholders and existing initiatives
in Europe to help define and coordinate CO2 storage research roadmaps and
activities at national, European and international level;
Help reduce the existing gap between the ‘forerunner’ countries, where CCS
activities have been started or planned, and those countries where these actions
are not yet happening;
Contribute to the large-scale demonstration and industrial deployment of CCS;
Support the implementation of the European Directive on the geological storage
of CO2 and other regulatory regimes;
This will be achieved by:
Setting up coordination and integration mechanisms between the CO2GeoNet
Association and the 23 other participants covering most of Europe with 24 EU
Member States and 4 Associated Countries, thus leading to capacity building
between the 34 institutes involved – all with experience and references in carbon
dioxide storage research;
Setting up links and cooperation with other initiatives at national, European and
international levels;
Preparing a framework enabling the consortium to be independent from EC
funding after the end of the project;
One major outcome of CGS Europe will be a better understanding of the current status of
CO2 geological storage throughout Europe, a sort of pan-European knowledge pool
structured to provide relevant information (reports, best practices, country status, etc.) to a
wide and varied audience. Through various dissemination tools (knowledge-dissemination
and awareness-raising workshops, a website with an online knowledge repository,
publications, spring/summer school, etc.), CGS Europe will offer access to unbiased,
scientific advice to national regulatory authorities, industrial stakeholders, the scientific
community, media, the general public, etc.
The first key-event organized by CGS Europe in 2011 will be the 6th CO2GeoNet Open
Forum, on May 9-11 in Venice. It will bring together CCS stakeholders and provide them
with the latest results and progress in the field of CO2 geological storage. A European
country-by-country overview will be presented, including an update on demos,
FP7 results, status of the transposition of the EC Directive. It will also include the
1st CGS Europe knowledge-sharing workshop focused on “Legal and regulatory
issues for the implementation of the EU Directive on the geological storage of
CO2”.
The most concrete outcome of CGS Europe, at the end of the EC funding period, will be a
durable European-wide scientific body on CO2 geological storage, forming the crossroads
between national-European-Worldwide perspectives and needs in the field of CO2
geological storage. |
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