Ten Times More Difficult: Quantifying the Carbon Capture and Storage Challenge

The document argues that current development paths for carbon capture and storage (CCS) are insufficient to meet commercial availability goals by the end of the decade or contribute significantly to CO2 emission reductions. It identifies four specific areas requiring a tenfold increase to achieve viability: the size of plants, the number of large-scale demonstration plants under construction, annual funding over the next 40 years, and the price of carbon dioxide emissions. The author concludes that CCS development depends on policy-makers simultaneously favoring coal-based power and implementing stringent climate policy.

• The study identifies four critical areas where a tenfold increase is required to advance carbon capture and storage: the capacity (MW) of plants moving from pilot to commercial demonstration, the number of large-scale demonstration plants under construction, the annual funding available over the next 40 years, and the price assigned to carbon dioxide emissions.
• Current progress indicates that CCS will not be commercially available by the end of the decade, nor will it be deployed widely enough to make significant contributions to necessary CO2 emission reductions.
• The development of CCS is contingent upon policy-makers maintaining support for coal-based power generation while concurrently establishing stringent climate policies.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2013). Ten Times More Difficult: Quantifying the Carbon Capture and Storage Challenge. https://www.sei.org/publications/ten-times-more-difficult-quantifying-the-carbon-capture-and-storage-challenge/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Ten Times More Difficult: Quantifying the Carbon Capture and Storage Challenge. 2013. https://www.sei.org/publications/ten-times-more-difficult-quantifying-the-carbon-capture-and-storage-challenge/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2013ten, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Ten Times More Difficult: Quantifying the Carbon Capture and Storage Challenge}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2013}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/ten-times-more-difficult-quantifying-the-carbon-capture-and-storage-challenge/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }