This publication focuses on the progress and challenges facing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and presents a comprehensive overview of the state of development of CCS projects and technologies, and of actions taken to facilitate the demonstration of those technologies at a large scale.

The Global CCS Institute was established as a key organisation charged with the responsibility of accelerating the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In so doing it would work with other leading organisations to achieve the Group of Eight (G8) objective of launching 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2010, taking into account varying