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Potential impacts of CCS on the CDM
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ECN
Policy Studies
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26-4-2011
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ECN-O--11-033
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Other
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35
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Abstract:
CO2 capture and storage can ensure that stringent climate change mitigation targets are
achieved more cost-effectively. However, in order to ensure a substantial role for CCS,
deployment of CCS is required on a significant global scale by 2020. Currently, the CDM is the
only international instrument that could provide a financial incentive for CCS in developing
countries. In December 2010 it was decided that CCS could in principle be eligible under the
CDM, provided a number of issues are resolved, including non-permanence, liability, monitoring
and potential perverse outcomes. The latter issue relates to the concern that that CCS projects could flood the CDM market,
thereby crowding out other technologies that could be considered more sustainable. This report,
therefore, aims to quantify the possible impact of CCS on the CDM market, in order to assess the
relevance of the CDM market objection. However, the analysis in the report is also valid for the
role of CCS in other types of international support mechanisms.
The first result of this study is a marginal abatement cost curve (MAC) for CCS in developing
countries for 2020. Based on existing MAC studies, the IEA CCS Roadmap and an overview of
ongoing and planned CCS activities, we compiled three scenarios for CCS in the power, industry
and upstream sector, as shown below. The major part of the potential below $30/tCO2eq (70 –
100 MtCO2/yr) is in the natural gas processing sector. Using the MACs for the CDM market, we estimate the economic potential for CCS projects to be
4-19% of the CDM credit supply in 2020. The potential impact inclusion of CCS in the CDM may have is assessed by using several
possible CER supply and demand scenarios, as well as scenarios related to market price
responsiveness and the role of CDM in the post-2012 carbon market. The impact is estimated to
be between $ 0 and $ 4 per tonne of CO2-eq, with three out of four scenarios indicating the lower
part of this range.
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