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13. Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions: Explaining Limited Progress

Authors : James Gaede, James Meadowcroft

Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is often presented as an important element in strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid dangerous climate change. However, recent progress in getting large-scale CCS demonstration projects off the ground has been slower than expected and concentrated in just a handful of countries. In this chapter, we review international progress in demonstrating CCS between 2010 and 2015 and conventional explanations offered for its limited progress. Taking a political–economic approach we identify a number of additional factors that have shaped CCS deployment and consider the difficulties CCS presents from a transitions perspective.

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Title: Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions: Explaining Limited Progress
Authors: James Gaede
James Meadowcroft
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book: The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55630-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55631-8

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55631-8_13

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