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© OECD/IEA 2012 Facing China’s Coal Future
Prospects and Challenges for Carbon Capture and Storage
Box 1 ACCA21 CCS Technology Roadmap 2011
The ACCA21 roadmap* sets out goals for the development of CCUS technologies and cost levels in
the coming decades. It sets out a vision to “provide technically viable and financially affordable
technological options to combat climate change and facilitate the socio‐economic sustainability” with
the following milestones:
By 2015, key capture technologies with low energy consumption will be realised and the research and
development (R&D) system for storage safety will be established. A full‐chain pilot and
demonstration at scale over 300 000 tonnes/yr will be conducted with an aim of achieving less than
25% additional energy consumption at the cost of approximately RMB 350/tonne;
By 2020, the storage safety system will be put in place. The Mt full‐chain CCUS demonstration will be
set up with less than 20% additional energy consumption at a cost of approximately RMB 300/tonne.
By 2030, the technical and engineering capacity for design, construction and operation of a full‐chain
CCUS project with scale over 1 Mt/yr with less than 17% additional energy consumption and the cost
of RMB 240/t or less will be in place.
*The ACCA21 roadmap does not contain a schedule or mandate actions for CCS technology
deployment.
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Source: ACCA21, 2011
Current CCS Development in China
China’s CCS policies and institutions
In recent years, policy for CCS in China has focused on research and technology development.
The national government has emphasised the need to further explore CCS as an important
technology in a mix of energy options to mitigate climate change impacts. China has not yet
introduced any specific policies or schemes to stimulate large scale development and
deployment of CCS technology, but CCS has been included in a series of special actions and
planning for climate change and low‐carbon R&D development (Table 1).
Table 1 Key climate and CCS policy actions in China
Policy statement
Medium- and Long-term
National Plan for Science
and Technology
Development (2006-2020)
China’s National Climate
Change Programme
(NCCP)
China’s Scientific and
Technological Actions on
Background/description
In February 2006, the State Council issued a proposal “to develop highly efficient clean
fossil energy and resource exploitation technologies with carbon dioxide zero emissions
technologies, and to list the cleaner and more efficient coal development and utilisation
techniques, as well as coal liquefaction and poly-generation as a top priority”.
On 4 June 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission, issued China’s
first policy document to address climate change (and the first national climate-change
programme among developing countries). The programme set targets, principles, key
areas and policies to address climate change and included CCS development (coal
gasification-based co-production technology, carbon capture, utilisation and storage
technology) in the key area of GHG reduction. The policy states a commitment to
“vigorously develop coal liquefaction, coal gasification, the coal chemical industry, and
poly-generation based on coal gasification, as well as carbon dioxide capture, utilisation
and storage technologies”.
On 14 June 2007, the Ministry of Science and Technology, along with 13 ministries and
departments, provided guidance and co-ordination on climate-change-related science
and technology research and development and established the country’s goals to