In coal and gas rich Australia, a future where we successfully capture CO₂ emissions from power stations and industrial plants like steel mills and keep them out of the atmosphere is an alluring vision.

The process to do this is called Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), with the aim being to safely sequester vast amounts of CO₂ in the ground … or more exotically diverting it to biological uses such as growing algae for bio-fuels.

If it can work at competitive cost, at large scale and within 10-20 years at most, the economic stakes are huge. The International Energy Agency say that CCS could deliver nearly one-fifth of emission cuts by 2050 and CCS champions insist that fossil fuels can actually help the transformation to a low-carbon economy.

Critics, meanwhile, fear it’s a doomed bid by still powerful vested interests to preserve their pollution-intensive industries. These opponents say CCS is unproven, unsafe and likely to be ruinously expensive – distracting focus and diverting public funding from superior solutions like renewable energy, clean production and energy efficiency.

Join Green Capital for a lunchtime debate with an international line-up to put CCS under the spotlight and probe its economic and environmental policy dimensions and implementation challenges.

Find out where CCS is headed. Don’t miss Solution or Sidetrack?

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Melbourne - The Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, Monday March 15th, Luncheon: 12pm - 2pm

(Doors Open 11.50am)                  2 Course Lunch plus drinks included

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