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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 to assess scientific and socio-economic information on climate change and provide advice to the UNFCCC. This Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) focuses on CCS as a mitigation option, covering technical specifics, costs, environmental impacts, and legal issues. The report is a collaborative effort involving numerous experts and governments, highlighting the importance of international cooperation in addressing climate change.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 to assess scientific and socio-economic information on climate change and provide advice to the UNFCCC. This Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) focuses on CCS as a mitigation option, covering technical specifics, costs, environmental impacts, and legal issues. The report is a collaborative effort involving numerous experts and governments, highlighting the importance of international cooperation in addressing climate change.

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Foreword

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was As is usual in the IPCC, success in producing this report has
jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization depended first and foremost on the knowledge, enthusiasm
(WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme and cooperation of many hundreds of experts worldwide,
(UNEP) in 1988. Its terms of reference include: (i) to assess in many related but different disciplines. We would like to
available scientific and socio-economic information on climate express our gratitude to all the Coordinating Lead Authors,
change and its impacts and on the options for mitigating Lead Authors, Contributing Authors, Review Editors and
climate change and adapting to it and (ii) to provide, on Expert Reviewers. These individuals have devoted enormous
request, scientific/technical/socio-economic advice to the time and effort to produce this report and we are extremely
Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations grateful for their commitment to the IPCC process. We would
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From like to thank the staff of the Working Group III Technical
1990, the IPCC has produced a series of Assessment Reports, Support Unit and the IPCC Secretariat for their dedication in
Special Reports, Technical Papers, methodologies and other coordinating the production of another successful IPCC report.
products that have become standard works of reference, We are also grateful to the governments, who have supported
widely used by policymakers, scientists and other experts. their scientists’ participation in the IPCC process and who
have contributed to the IPCC Trust Fund to provide for the
At COP7, a draft decision was taken to invite the IPCC essential participation of experts from developing countries
to write a technical paper on geological storage of carbon and countries with economies in transition. We would like
dioxidea. In response to that, at its 20th Session in 2003 in to express our appreciation to the governments of Norway,
Paris, France, the IPCC agreed on the development of the Australia, Brazil and Spain, who hosted drafting sessions in
Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage. their countries, and especially the government of Canada,
that hosted a workshop on this subject as well as the 8th
This volume, the Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture session of Working Group III for official consideration and
and Storage, has been produced by Working Group III of acceptance of the report in Montreal, and to the government of
the IPCC and focuses on carbon dioxide capture and storage The Netherlands, who funds the Working Group III Technical
(CCS) as an option for mitigation of climate change. It Support Unit.
consists of 9 chapters covering sources of CO2, the technical
specifics of capturing, transporting and storing it in geological We would particularly like to thank Dr. Rajendra Pachauri,
formations, the ocean, or minerals, or utilizing it in industrial Chairman of the IPCC, for his direction and guidance of
processes. It also assesses the costs and potential of CCS, the the IPCC, Dr. Renate Christ, the Secretary of the IPCC and
environmental impacts, risks and safety, its implications for her staff for the support provided, and Professor Ogunlade
greenhouse gas inventories and accounting, public perception, Davidson and Dr. Bert Metz, the Co-Chairmen of Working
and legal issues. Group III, for their leadership of Working Group III through
the production of this report.

Michel Jarraud Klaus Töpfer


Secretary-General, Executive Director,
World Meteorological Organization United Nations Environment Programme and
Director-General,
United Nations Office in Nairobi

a
See http://unfccc.int, Report of COP7, document FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.1, Decision 9/CP.7 (Art. 3.14 of the Kyoto Protocol), Draft decision -/CMP.1, para 7,
page 50: “Invites the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in cooperation with other relevant organisations, to prepare a technical paper on geological
carbon storage technologies, covering current information, and report on it for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the
Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at its second session”.

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