Financial support of ZeroGen brings CCS a step closer
20 Mar 2008
WWF welcomes today's announcement that the coal carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project ZeroGen is one step closer to fruition after receiving financial support from the coal industry.
"Rapid deployment of demonstration plants like ZeroGen is necessary to determine whether CCS is practical for broad application," Mr Bourne said.
"The ZeroGen project has built in a commercialisation phase, which will take the learning's from the demonstration and apply it to a larger scale plant, which is also critical for the development of the technology."
WWF's Climate Solutions report released last year found that the international community must rapidly and concurrently deploy a range of renewable and low emissions technology, including carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The report also found that if one or two of the zero or low emission technologies fail or are delayed, including CCS, the chance of beating the climate and energy challenge drops dramatically.
"There is no single solution to climate change. The world must simultaneously become more energy efficient, halt and reverse the loss of forests, and replace traditional fossil fuels with zero and low emission technologies," Mr Bourne said.
"With the potential collapse of FutureGen in the United States, much of the world is looking at Australia and projects like ZeroGen to take a lead and prove the technology."
For more information:
Charlie Stevens, WWF-Australia Press Office, 02 8202 1274, 0424 649 689
Paul Toni, WWF-Australia Program Leader - Development & Sustainability, 0410 086 986
