本文转自《Imperial College London》发布的题为“CCUS Taskforce urges Government to invest in carbon capture technologies”的报道。

作者：Sara West

日期：2018.08.08

原文链接：https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/187626/ccus-taskforce-urges-government-invest-carbon/

Urgent investment is needed in carbon capture and storage to secure UK’s position as global leader in the field.

碳捕获和储存需要紧急投资，以确保英国作为该领域的全球领导者的地位。

The CCUS (Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage) Cost Challenge Taskforce have published a report detailing the steps needed to develop CCUS in the UK and ensure its place as a leader in decarbonisation.

CCUS（碳捕集，使用和存储）成本挑战工作组发布了一份报告，详细说明了在英国开发CCUS所需的步骤，并确保其作为脱碳领导者的地位。

The report, Delivering clean growth, emphasises the urgency with which Government must act if it intends to meet its goal of deploying CCUS cost-effectively and at scale during the 2030s. The UK has the potential to secure its place as a global leader in this field, but investment in projects must be made now to enable this to happen. Carbon capture and storage is internationally recognised as a means to meet climate change targets, but lacks the infrastructure to enable it to happen on the scale which experts predict will be needed to achieve global emissions reduction.

该报告（实现清洁增长），强调了如果打算在2030年实现具有成本效益和大规模部署CCUS的目标，政府必须采取行动的紧迫性。英国有潜力确保其作为该领域的全球领导者的地位，但现在必须对项目进行投资才能实现这一目标。 碳捕获和储存是国际公认的一种实现气候变化目标的手段，但缺乏基础设施，无法实现专家预测实现全球减排所需的规模。

Established in January 2018, the remit of the CCUS Taskforce is to develop and propose a strategic plan to Government to support the development of CCUS in the UK, and the Government’s commitment to a low carbon future. Chaired by Charlotte Morgan, a Partner in the Global Energy & Energy Infrastructure Group at Linklaters, the taskforce includes over 40 leading experts from across industry and academia.

成立于2018年1月，CCUS专责小组的职责是制定并提出一项政府战略计划，以支持CCUS在英国的发展，以及政府对低碳未来的承诺。 由Linklaters全球能源与能源基础设施集团合伙人 Charlotte Morgan担任主席，该工作组包括来自各行业和学术界的40多位顶尖专家。

Delivering clean growth

实现清洁增长

The report focuses on areas where the public and private sectors can work together, and sets out four key messages for Government:

该报告侧重于公共和私营部门可以合作的领域，并为政府列出四个关键信息：

The need to recognise the CCUS opportunity and the urgency of acting now in order to deliver CCUS at scale, at lowest cost.

需要认识到CCUS的机会以及现在采取行动的紧迫性，以便以最低的成本大规模地提供CCUS。

CCUS can unlock value across the economy to enable low carbon industrial products.

CCUS可以在整个经济中释放价值，从而实现低碳工业产品。

Viable business models are needed to move the technology to a sustainable commercial footing.

需要可行的商业模式将技术推向可持续的商业基础。

The taskforce believes that CCUS can already be deployed at a competitive cost, as the project concepts being proposed are comparable on cost with other first of a kind low carbon technologies.

该工作组认为，CCUS已经可以以具有竞争力的成本进行部署，因为所提出的项目概念在成本上与其他首创的低碳技术相当。

It emphasises the importance of creating CCUS clusters on a regional scale, where several facilities share infrastructure and knowledge in order to lower costs, unlock value for local economies, and foster technical innovation.

它强调了在区域范围内创建CCUS集群的重要性，其中一些设施共享基础设施和知识，以降低成本，为当地经济释放价值，并促进技术创新。

In addition to reducing emissions, carbon capture and storage offers new opportunities for industry, employment and economic development. As a world leader in addressing climate change, the UK has expertise in the low carbon sector, which has created thousands of domestic jobs. By further specialising in low carbon technologies, there’s greater potential for the creation of more high-value jobs and opportunities to export low-carbon services. 

除减少排放外，碳捕获和储存为工业、就业和经济发展提供了新的机会。 作为应对气候变化的全球领导者，英国在低碳领域拥有专业知识，创造了数千个国内就业岗位。 通过进一步专注于低碳技术，创造更多高价值就业机会和出口低碳服务机会的潜力更大。

Next steps 

下一步

The next stage is for the government to respond to the Taskforce Report over the next few months; the initial response of the Energy and Clean Growth Minister, Claire Perry, has been highly favourable. It is anticipated that BEIS will lead on developing a CCUS Deployment Roadmap in the autumn, working closely with the Taskforce Members and the industry on this. 

下一阶段是政府在未来几个月内回应专题小组报告，能源和清洁增长部长Claire Perry的初步反应非常有利。预计BEIS将在秋季开始制定CCUS部署路线图，与工作组成员和行业密切合作。

A key event for evaluating progress on the Taskforce recommendations will be the ‘Accelerating CCUS: A Global Conference to Progress CCUS’ conference, taking place 28-29 November in Edinburgh, Scotland and organised by the UK government with international partners. Incorporating two days of CCUS focused events, the conference will gather speakers, delegates from governments, industry, academia and leading experts from around the world to discuss the value of CCUS, business models, the future of CCUS technologies and practical solutions and actions to accelerate the deployment of CCUS globally. The Global Conference will run alongside a CCUS Summit, which will be co-hosted by the UK government and the International Energy Agency on 28 November, bringing together world energy leaders from government and industry to discuss concrete actions to scale up CCUS globally.

评估专题组建议进展的关键事件将是11月28日至29日在苏格兰爱丁堡举行的“加速CCUS：全球CCUS进展会议”会议，由英国政府与国际合作伙伴共同组织。本次会议将结合为期两天的CCUS重点活动，聚集来自世界各地的政府，行业，学术界和顶尖专家的发言人，代表们讨论CCUS的价值，商业模式，CCUS技术的未来以及加速实际的解决方案和行动全球部署CCUS。全球会议将与CCUS峰会同时举行，该峰会将于11月28日由英国政府和国际能源机构共同主办，汇集了来自政府和行业的世界能源领导者，讨论在全球范围内扩大CCUS的具体行动。

Further details on government response and the Global Conference can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-carbon-capture-and-storage-government-funding-and-support

有关政府响应和全球会议的更多详细信息，请访问：https：//www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-carbon-capture-and-storage-government-funding-and-support