Untangling Critical Governance Conditions for CCS Deployment
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Untangling critical governance conditions for CCS - Presentation by Dr Heleen de Coninck ((Radboud University Nijmegen)) at the UKCCSRC's CCS: Issues in governance and ethics workshop in Edinburgh, 23 September 2014
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Untangling Critical Governance Conditions for CCS Deployment
- 1. Untangling critical governance conditions for CCS Heleen de Coninck Radboud University h.deconinck@science.ru.nl Workshop: CCS: Issues in governance and ethics UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre Edinburgh, September 23rd, 2014
- 2. Overview of CCS projects Val Verde Gas Plant (1.3 Mt/yr) 1990 1980 2000 2010 2020 1970 Enid Fertilizer Plant (0.7 Mt/yr) Shute Creek Gas Processing (7 Mt/yr) Sleipner Vest Gas Processing (1 Mt/yr) Great Plains Synfuel and Weyburn (3 Mt/yr) In Salah Gas Project (1.1 Mt/yr) Snohvit Gas Project (0.7 Mt/yr Port Arthur SMR Project (1Mt/yr) Operating Industrial Scale Projects Under Construction Industrial Scale Projects Agrium Fertilizer Project (0.6 Mt/yr) Sturgeon Refinery Project (1.2 Mt/yr) Kemper County IGCC (3.5 Mt/yr) Lost Cabin Gas Plant (1 Mt/yr) ADM Ethanol Plant (1 Mt/yr) Gorgon Gas LNG Plant Project (3-4 Mt/yr) Quest Upgrader Project (1.2Mt/yr) Boundary Dam Power Post-Combustion (1 Mt/yr) Published in: De Coninck and Benson: Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2014. 39:243-70
- 3. Why is CCS failing in so many places? • For reasons specific to those places • Common: public resistance, rising costs, absence of market signals • Specific: – Confidence in other options: renewables, shale gas – Lack of political will for action on climate change (disillusion after Copenhagen) – Economic crisis and ensuing low CO2-prices
- 4. Who are the key actors (loosely based on functions in Technological Innovation Systems)? Bergek et al. (2008 )
- 5. Many actors matter Political leaders Investors Communities Policymakers NGOs CO2-emitting industry Storage operators Scientists Think tanks Local decision- makers
- 6. Actors depend on each other Political leaders Investors Communities Policymakers NGOs CO2-emitting industry Storage operators Scientists Think tanks Local decision- makers
- 7. Some are more independent Political leaders Investors Communities Policymakers NGOs CO2-emitting industry Storage operators Scientists Think tanks Local decision- makers
- 8. Political leader • Positive arguments • Climate change awareness • Positive economics • Credible information sources • Political benefit for party/constituency • Industrial support • Climate change action • Storage security • Community support • Robust policy support • Favorable cost and market conditions Critical governance conditions Published in: De Coninck and Benson: Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2014. 39:243-70
- 9. A new (CCS-positive) social science research agenda • What is an acceptable climate action agenda that would make a difference to CCS? • How can policy support be made robust over the longer term? • How do independent experts, communities and politicians interact? • Why would a political leader become involved in CCS?