Carbon Capture and Storage - Solution to Climate Change?
Working paper presented at the KyotoPlus conference in Berlin
This paper is a working paper on the topic CCS within a row of different papers to inform the conference "KyotoPlus - Escaping the Climate Trap" on 28/29 September 2006 in Berlin.
The paper presents the current set of players of the CCS debate, as well as their rationale. CCS will then in brief be compared with other climate protection options, concentrating on renewable energies. Discussion of national and international importance of CCS is followed by the last section, which sets CCS in the context of international legal frameworks, analysing its possible role in the climate regime.