This slideshow explains why a database is needed that provides carbon dioxide amounts captured by industrial companies.

1. NEEDED:
A DATABASE SHOWING
AMOUNTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
CAPTURED FROM INDUSTRIAL GAS
EMISSIONS
THE FOLLOWING SLIDES WILL PROVIDE:
A DESCRIPTION THE NEEDED DATABASE
BACKGROUND ON WHY THE DATABASE IS
NEEDED
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING THE
NEEDED DATABASE

2. A DESCRIPTION THE NEEDED DATABASE
A database is needed that will provide the quantity of
carbon dioxide that is captured from the gas emissions of
each industrial company in all countries.
The quantities inputted need to be as a standardized value
so that quantities added can be compared.
Industrial companies in all countries need to input their
carbon dioxide captured emissions (the database needs to
be a global database).
The database requires accurate measurements of captured
carbon dioxide.
Currently no such database exists.

3. BACKGROUND ON WHY THE DATABASE IS
NEEDED
The following link provides information on the need for
carbon dioxide capture, what it is, and other aspects of
carbon dioxide capture:
https://www.c2es.org/content/carbon-capture/.
Rising global temperatures and climate change cannot be
avoided without reducing the amounts of carbon dioxide
being emitted into the atmosphere by industrial
companies. This reduction is impossible without
capturing a significant amount of the carbon dioxide
before it is emitted into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide capturing technologies are available and
are being used. These technologies work but because of
the complexities of the technologies many improvements
are needed, and much research and development work is
being done.
However, unless accurate and readily available amounts
of carbon dioxide being captured can be accessed in a
global, reliable maintained data base, assessments on how
the world’s carbon dioxide capture program will not be
able to be evaluated and managed.

4. POSSIBLE APPROACHES AND PROBLEMS IN
DEVELOPING THE NEEDED DATABASE
1. National environmental or health agencies (e.g., the
Environment Protection Agency in the United States) are
candidates for maintenance of the databases on a country-
by-country basis.
2. Individual country databases need to tie into a global
database managed by an international agency (e.g., the
World Bank or the United Nations). The global database
would include the individual countries data. A model for
this country-international database system could be an
integrated national database system. Such a system is
described in the World Bank’s World Development
Report 2021 (Chapter 9) available at this website:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2021.
3. The database needs to champion by an international
agency such as the World Bank or the United Nations.
4. The database would be available from a website such
as the World Bank and United Nations database sites:
https://data.worldbank.org/;
https://www.un.org/en/library/page/databases.
5. Maintaining the database will require effective
collaboration between the public institution keeping the
database and the companies providing the data.