Useful Links For More Carbon Capture and Storage Information

Multilateral Organizations

• Global CCS Institute (GCCSI)
  The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (Global CCS Institute) has an integral role to play in reducing the effects of climate change. Its central objective is to accelerate the commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to ensure their valuable contribution in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. 
• Intergovernmental Partnership on Climate Change (IPCC)
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by World Metrological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
• International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE)
  International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) was created to organize and implement effective, efficient, and focused research, and to develop and deploy activities that advance hydrogen and fuel cell programs. It also provides a forum for advancing policies, and common codes and standards that can accelerate the cost-effective transition to a global hydrogen economy to enhance energy security and environmental protection.
• IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
  IEA GHG is an international collaboration which aims to (1) evaluate technologies for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; (2) disseminate the results of these studies; and (3) identify targets for research, development and demonstration and promote the appropriate work. The IEA GHG R&D Programme operates under an Implementing Agreement provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA); the Programme started in November 1991 and the fourth phase began in November 2000. Its main activities concern methods of reducing GHG emissions, particularly CO2 from fossil fuels. Much attention has been given to the option of capture and storage or utilization of CO2.
• IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Sequestration Database
  The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme announced in January 2003 its new CO2 sequestration information database with the aims of promoting awareness of the extent of research, development and demonstration of CO2 capture and storage by listing all of the projects underway worldwide. This central source of information is intended to facilitate cooperation between projects, highlighting gaps in current research and identifying areas where future research is required. The database was constructed from publicly available information on both project and program web sites, such as the US DOE Carbon Sequestration Program web site and the European Commission's SESAME information sheets, as well as information supplied directly to IEA GHG. As of January 2003, this database of CO2 capture and storage projects contained 84 projects that are complete or currently underway.
• World Energy Congress' Pilot Programme on GHG Reduction
  The WEC GHG Emissions Reduction Programme was launched in 2000 as an industry initiative to record, on an interactive electronic system, the projects in which the global energy industry is involved and the reductions in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions they are expected to achieve.

Non-Profit Organizations

• Alliance for Climate Strategies
  Coalition aimed to use American ingenuity to reduce the release of greenhouse emissions.
• CARE
  The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy (CARE) was formed in 2000 to ensure the availability of affordable and reliable supplies of energy for families and businesses in the United States.
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
  The Center was incorporated in 1998 as a non-profit dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on climate and the biosphere. The Center's web site is frequently updated with new issues of CO2 Science Magazine which contains editorials and reviews of five different peer-reviewed scientific journal articles relating to various aspects of the global change debate. Included in the site are many articles and references to terrestrial carbon sequestration.
• Centre for CO2 Technology
  The Centre for CO2 Technology has been established in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London, and focuses on developing break-through technologies for the large scale reduction, removal, and sequestration (e.g. long term storage in geological, terrestrial, and ocean systems) of carbon dioxide.
• CTI - Climate Technology Initiative
  This group is working to accelerate development and diffusion of climate-friendly technologies and practices.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI): Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases
  The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is to achieve and maintain a position as a world center for advanced research and education in ocean science and technology. MBARI scientists work in the area of Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases includes deep-sea experiments in release of liquid carbon dioxide.
• Personal Carbon Emission Calculator
  This link provides a program that allows visitors to estimate their own carbon emissions.
• Sequesteration Resources
  Links to partnerships, publications, and other resources. Good starting point.
• United States Carbon Sequestration Council
  The U.S. Carbon Sequestration Council (USCSC) is a non-profit coalition of scientists, engineers, academics, environmentalists, and leaders from the business and the public sectors. The USCSC has written several papers on carbon capture and storage (CCS), which are available for download.
• World Coal Institute Website
  Official website of the World Coal institute, including information on CCS and clean coal technology.
• The World Land Trust
  The World Land Trust is an international conservation charity working to preserve the world's most biologically important important and threatened lands. The World Land Trust has started a Carbon Balanced programme which helps individuals and companies measure their emissions, reduce where they can and offset their CO2 by sponsoring forest regeneration.
• World Resource Institute: Carbon Sinks and Sequestration
  The WRI's activities range from local studies to national, regional, and global assessments. One of its specific topics is Climate Change, and this web site is a collection of information and descriptive reports about carbon sequestration.

Government-Private Sector Consortium

• The Coal-Seq Project
  In October 2000, a three-year government/private industry initiative, the Coal-Seq project, was launched to study the feasibility in the U.S. The project is studying the feasibility of CO2 sequestration in deep, unmineable coalseams using enhanced recovery technology. The Coal-Seq project is specifically focused on understanding the results of actual field Coalbed experiments via reservoir modeling, with laboratory studies filling a supporting, not primary, role. 

Universities

• Carbon Mitigation Initiative
  The mission of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative is to find a solution to the greenhouse gas problem.
• Columbia University Energy Initiative
  Official site of the Columbia University energy initiative program.
• Global Climate & Energy Project at Stanford University
  The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is a long-term research effort bringing together the world's leading scientists from universities, research institutions, and private industry in fundamental, pre-commercial research on technologies that would foster the development of a global energy system with low greenhouse gas emissions
• MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment: The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program (CCST)
  The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program looks at carbon management activities including technology development, assessment, and education and outreach, with attention given to all aspects. Attention is given to all aspects of the problem, including technological, economic, environmental, and social. The program's research initiatives include studies of the economics of capture and sequestration, integrated assessment studies, research on a novel separation process, research on ocean carbon sequestration, and assessment of hydrogen storage materials. A major new component of the program is the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, an industrial consortium.
• MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment: Carbon Sequestration Initiative (CSI)
  The MIT Energy Laboratory joined forces in July 2000 with six companies from the oil and gas, electric power, and automotive sectors to launch a new industrial consortium to support research on carbon sequestration. The Carbon Sequestration Initiative (CSI) will fund MIT scientists and engineers to perform objective assessments of carbon sequestration technologies and will provide seed grants for new research ideas. The carbon sequestration strategy involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions at their source and then using or storing the carbon dioxide to prevent its buildup in the atmosphere.
• Sequesteration on the Gulf Coast
  This site contains information on geological sequestration focusing on the Gulf Coast.