Using Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage

to reverse the trend of carbonisation

Thursday 2nd June, 2022

8 am – 11.10 am – Washington Time

2 pm – 5.10 pm Paris Time

8 pm – 11.10 pm Beijing Time

ONLINE EVENT

The Glasgow COP26 has called for decisive and swift action to fight climate change. But it is now due time to put in place global devices for reversing the trend of carbon emissions.

The current energy crisis which puts pressure on the use of fossil fuel (amplified by the conflict in Ukraine), shows that when it is hardly feasible for firms to operate without it, phasing out carbon emissions needs to put in place the right incentives for these firms to implement CC(U)S (carbon capture, utilisation and storage).

This event will look at the technical issues to overcome for a large use of CC(U)S. To cope with what could be a major breakthrough for fighting global warming, the debate will look at its market, legal and regulatory dimensions. Focus will be put on the use of sectoral carbon markets with sectoral carbon prices determined as the right incentives for firms to retrofit their plants, coming not only from the foregone cost of carbon emissions, but also from the use of carbon market receipts to help fund the necessary investments.

This debate launched by the Task Force on Carbon Pricing in Europe will take place in a trilateral format with contributions from speakers and panellists from China, the European Union and the US. The Chinese IFF and the American Paulson Institute are co-organising the event. 

DRAFT AGENDA

14:00 – 14:04   Welcome remarks by Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman of the Task Force on Carbon Pricing in Europe

14:04 – 14:28   Introductory session – Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage: an appraisal

14:04 – 14:12   Moderator: Sylvie Cornot-Gandolphe, Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Energy & Climate of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) (confirmed)

14:12 – 14:20   Speaker: N… (someone from the International Energy Agency) (tbc)

14:20 – 14:28   Speaker: Guloren Turan, General Manager for Advocacy & Communications at the Global CCS Institute (confirmed)

14:28 – 15:20   Session 1 – Technological challenges raised by CCS development

14:28 – 14:34   Moderator: ZHAI Yongping, IFF Academic Member, Senior Advisor of Tencent Strategic Development Department (confirmed)

14:34 – 14:40   Panellist: Graciela Chichilnisky, Founder and CEO of Global Thermostat (confirmed)

14:40 – 14:46   Panellist: Lamberto Eldering, Business Developer Low Carbon Solutions at Equinor, Vice Chairman of the Zero Emissions Platform (tbc)

14:46 – 14:52   Panellist: XU Dong, Director of Carbon Neutralization Research Center of New Energy Institute, China Energy Corporation (confirmed)

14:52 – 15:20   Discussion with the floor

15:20 – 16:20   Session 2 – Incentives for business to invest in CCS (with a focus on sectoral carbon emissions pricing)

For firms which emit carbon in sectors such as coal-fired energy, cement, steel… which don’t have the opportunity to pursue their activities without carbon emissions and therefore need to make investments to retrofit their plants through CC(U)S, a strong incentive could come from implementation of sectoral carbon markets, their sectoral prices being related to the investments to make. Incentive would come not only from the necessity to avoid the cost of carbon emissions, but also from use of the receipts of these markets to help the funding for the plants’ retrofitting: a device which could be a major breakthrough towards decarbonisation.

15:20 – 15:26   Moderator: Julien Perez, Vice President Strategy & Policy at the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) (confirmed)

15:26 – 15:32   Panellist: Jean-Pascal Clémençon, Senior Vice President Strategy & Markets

at TotalEnergies (confirmed)

15:32 – 15:38   Panellist: LV Xuedu, Former Lead Climate Change Specialist of Asian Development Bank (confirmed)

15:38 – 15:44   Panellist: Brian Chase, General Manager Markets and Customers for CCUS at Chevron (tbc)

15:44 – 15:50   Panellist: N… (business US executive) (tbc)

15:50 – 16:20   Discussion with the floor

16:20 – 17:06   Session 3 – Regulatory environment

16:20 – 16:26   Moderator: Dan McDougall, Senior Fellow at the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (confirmed) (on the Montreal Protocol)

16:26 – 16:34   Guest Speaker: Juho Lipponen, Coordinator of the CCUS Initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (confirmed)

16:34 – 16:40   Panellist: Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman of the Task Force on Carbon Pricing in Europe (confirmed) (on sectoral markets for carbon emissions)

16:40 – 16:46   Panellist: David Boublil, Deputy Head of the Unit on Indirect taxation and tax administration, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission (confirmed) (on the global regulatory environment and European CBAM)

16:40 – 17:06   Discussion with the floor

17:06 – 17:10   Concluding remarks