Ashok Kumar Fellowship 2023/24
Applications are now open for the 2023/24 Ashok Kumar Fellowship Scheme.

Carbon capture and usage (CCU) is a basket of technologies that have collectively gained attention in recent years from industry and policymakers as a potential approach to climate change mitigation.
Carbon Capture and Usage (160 KB , PDF)
It involves capturing waste carbon dioxide (CO2) from power production and industrial processes, and using it in a broad number of economically productive ways. This can include in, amongst others processes, the production of chemicals, minerals, synthetic fuels, plastics, or as a solvent.
This POSTbrief presents a broad overview of CCU processes, and reports evidence on their potential for climate change mitigation. It finds that because of a number of barriers including costs, energy requirements and the fact that the majority of processes eventually release CO2 back into the atmosphere (either immediately, or via products that break down within a short amount of time), CCU’s direct mitigation potential may be relatively small. However, CCU could develop an early-stage market for wider CO2 capture technologies. This would help to develop capture carbon and storage (CCS), which is widely accepted to be a likely and substantial component of future mitigation efforts at the global level.
Carbon Capture and Usage (160 KB , PDF)
Applications are now open for the 2023/24 Ashok Kumar Fellowship Scheme.
This POSTnote will consider developments in demand-side response, evidence of its potential contribution to decarbonisation of the power system, and the policy or market mechanisms needed to fully realise the opportunities DSR presents.
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