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• July 15, 2010 Chairman of Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute Emphasizes CCS Technology's Critical Role in Fighting Climate Change

  "Some 20 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary between now and 2050 can be achieved through CCS, according to the International Energy Agency.

  "But for that reduction to become reality, we need to have more than 3,000 projects operational over the next four decades, trapping and burrowing away a volume of carbon dioxide equivalent to twice the volume of oil and gas the world currently extracts each year. …

  "So CCS isn't optional - it's essential...

  "Critics like to say we don't know enough about CCS, but this is untrue. A handful of commercial-scale CCS projects have been operational in Norway, Canada and Algeria for nearly as long as two decades. Vast learning is available from those successful projects, but not widely shared...

  "There is no doubt that we will also need to try and have exchanges with each other - either on where we stand personally on CCS, and on where we stand politically, and where we stand on the global issues that confront us at this time. What is important is that we keep moving forward to try and ensure that CCS is at the forefront of our thinking."

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