1. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 1 The Second European Climate Change Programme Working Group III Carbon Capture and Geological Storage Draft Mandate Jürgen Lefevere DG Environment, Climate Change & Energy Unit

2. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 2 CCS on the Global Agenda l Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) l IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme l G8 Action Plan on Technology l IPCC: m IPCC Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (September 2005) m Greenhouse gas inventory guidelines (2006) l Ongoing work under other Conventions: m (London) Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter (1972) m (Ospar) Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (1992)

3. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 3 CCS on the EU agenda l Activities under FP5 and FP6 m 19 Projects on Capture and Storage worth more than 170 M m Growth Initiative – Quickstart Programme : Hypogen m Co-ordination of member states activities, ERA-NET (FENCO) m 1st European High Level Conference on CO2 Capture and Storage (April 2005) m International Cooperation : Contribute to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, an objective in last 2 Call for Proposals m European Technology Platform on Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants l Activities under FP7 m CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation m Clean coal technologies

4. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 4 Winning the battle against climate change 9 February 2005: Commission Communication COM(2005) 35 final Winning the battle against climate change 1.Renewable electricity & fuels 2.Energy efficiency & conservation 3.Forests & Soils 4.Fuels switch 5.Carbon Capture and Storage 6.Nuclear Fission 7. Conclusions 3. Enhanced innovation: […] A portfolio of low emission technologies is already available and needs to be disseminated more widely. Source: Climate Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University

5. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 5 Source: IPCC Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (Sept 2005) A role for CCS?

6. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 6 Winning the battle against climate change 9 February 2005: Commission Communication COM(2005) 35 final Winning the battle against climate change 8.Recommendations for EU Climate Policies: The Next Steps Policies: The Next Steps A new phase of the European Climate Change Programme in 2005: The Commission will review progress and explore new actions to systematically exploit cost effective emission reduction options in synergy with the Lisbon strategy. Attention will be paid in particular to energy efficiency, renewable energy, the transport sector (including aviation and maritime transport), and carbon capture and storage. A new phase of the European Climate Change Programme in 2005: The Commission will review progress and explore new actions to systematically exploit cost effective emission reduction options in synergy with the Lisbon strategy. Attention will be paid in particular to energy efficiency, renewable energy, the transport sector (including aviation and maritime transport), and carbon capture and storage.

7. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 7 ECCP WG III (CCS): objective l The general objective of the Working Group is to explore geological carbon capture and storage as a mitigation option by: m reviewing the potential, economics and risks of CCS; m identifying regulatory needs and barriers and exploring the elements of an enabling regulatory framework for the development of environmentally sound CCS; m identifying other barriers that could impede the development of environmentally sound policies to advance CCS, and policies to enable the development of environmentally sound CCS.

8. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 8 Working Group Meetings Four Meetings: l State of play (February 2006) l Risks and economic potential (March 2006) l The regulatory framework (April 2006) l Summary and conclusions (May 2006)

9. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 9 Policy deliverables l Final Report of WG III by May 2006 l Communication on CCS at the end of 2006 or early 2007

10. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 10 http://europa.eu.int/ comm/environment/ climat/eccp.htm Thank You!

11. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 11 Actual and projected progress of GHG reductions in the EU

12. European Commission: Environment Directorate General Slide: 12 Notes: Data exclude emissions and removals from land-use, land-use change and forestry. All EU-15 Member States provided projections assuming existing domestic policies and measures. Several countries provided projections with additional domestic policies and measures. For following Member States the additional effects of the use of Kyoto mechanisms is included: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain),. For EU-15 the effect of use of Kyoto mechanisms is calculated based on information from these nine countries. Projections for Poland cover only CO2 and N2O and include LULUCF. Projections for Spain cover only CO2. Projections for Cyprus and Malta are not available. Source: EEA, 2005 Distance-to-target in 2010 (percentage points) for the EU-25, including Kyoto mechanisms