Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the role that carbon capture and (a) storage and (b) utilisation will play in meeting the developing world's growing demand for energy.

The Department does not make its own assessment of the energy mix in developing countries: it reviews the analysis done by the International Energy Agency and other multilateral bodies, together with the assessments by the countries themselves, in determining the areas in which our international work might be most effective.

For example, the International Energy Agency’s[1] two-degree scenario analysis has consistently highlighted that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be important in limiting future temperature increases to 2°C and estimates that 94 giga-tonnes of CO₂ captured and stored through to 2050 from the power, industry and fuel transformation sectors. Of this nearly 75% of CCS is deployed outside of the OECD countries.

To support the development of CCS technology in emerging economies, the Government committed £60 million in 2012 from its International Climate Fund (ICF). This International CCS Capacity Building Programme continues to work with, and in, emerging economies to develop the technical and institutional knowledge necessary to enable the deployment of CCS technologies.

[1] IEA 2016, 20 Years of Carbon Capture and Storage