Are We Nearly There Yet? A Review of Progress against CCS Roadmaps in the UK

5 years ago we held a stakeholder workshop (organised by the Tyndall Centre with Stuart Haszeldine on behalf of UKERC) in Edinburgh with the aim of developing a roadmap for CCS deployment in the UK. The workshop took as a starting point results from an extensive survey of expert opinion on the state of CCS technologies (Gough 2008) and produced roadmaps describing the shortand long-term views and the influence of externalities (Gough, Mander et al. 2010). In the meantime, other more recent roadmaps have been developed at a global scale by the IEA (International Energy Agency 2010), for Europe (EC CCS roadmap planned for release 3rd quarter of 2012), the US (DOE/NETL 2010), Scotland (Scottish Government 2010).