Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.102903
Keywords
ACORN project; Carbon dioxide capture and storage; Just transition; Regional policy; Stakeholder understanding; Regional development
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Funding
- Accelerating CCS technologies (ACT) [ACT 691712]
- ERA-NET under the Horizon 2020 programme
- BEIS (UK)
- RCN (Norway)
- RVO (The Netherlands)
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This paper assesses the role of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in addressing challenges in the energy transition in regions reliant on carbon-intensive industries for employment and as an economic base. The assessment is based on semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders and experts in the Aberdeen area in Scotland, the Rotterdam harbour (or Rijnmond) area in the Netherlands, and in Norway. The interviews explored challenges around the role of CCS in regional 'just transitions', or how to make the transformation of regions relying on carbon-intensive industries to a low-carbon society fair. While significant differences in responses between the Aberdeen area, the Rijnmond area and Norway were found, a common understanding showed that for CCS to contribute to a just transition it has to (a) make a contribution to climate change imperatives; (b) help to mitigate the economic and employment effects arising from declining or maturing industries; and (c) be undertaken in a manner that helps to redress (or at least does not increase) uneven vulnerabilities and inequalities in society. Five key themes that characterise the opportunities and challenges for CCS from a just transition perspective were drawn from the interviews: Skills for a just transition, transition as an opportunity, responsibility, scale of action and viability. We recommend that these are added to earlier work on barriers and enablers of CCS in areas relying on fossil industry.
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