New Delhi: experts from India and the US discuss the challenges and opportunities to combat climate change through capture solutions and utilization of carbon led technology.
Carbon arrest captures carbon dioxide before entering the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it for centuries or thousands of years.
The discussion was held at the Indo-US scope of workshop on carbon arrests on Friday, held together by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the United States Department of Energy.
Secretary DST S Chandraskhar said that in the COP-26 recently concluded in Glasgow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi raises the extraordinary performance of the country and ambition to meet climate goals even though it becomes one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
“PM has given a mandate for all of us to become a zero emission country in 2070,” Chandrasekhar was highlighted in his opening remarks.
“Under a tight climate regime, we can realize the identification and adoption of the balance sheet portfolio of emission restrictions,” he said.
Chandrashekhar said carbon arrest, utilization, and storage (CCU) is one of the main lines to reduce emissions while continuously developing with an unprecedented speed.
CCU is clearly parallel to five of the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs).
He directed collection of recent initiatives from the Science and Technology Department against RD & D technology in the field of CCU.
He told that India was part of a transnational multilateral platform such as mission innovation and accelerating CCU technology (ACT) together with other member countries, including the US, for collaborative RD & D in the CCU region.
He further added that the Ministry of Energy and the US and the US jointly regulated a series of Indo-US coating workshops about carbon capture, utilization and storage, scheduled to be held from January 21 to February 25, to explore the complementary strength and gap in the CCU area between Both countries and developed collaborative technology leadership efforts to work together to reach zero zero carbon goals.
Jennifer Wilcox, Acting Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy Office and Carbon Management (FECM), the US Department of Energy, said that India is a valuable partner in developing new technologies to combat climate and clean energy targets.
Wilcox provides an overview of US initiatives regarding clean energy and says it is a global crisis and requires a global response in clean energy technology and international partnerships to achieve net-zero carbon status.
He hopes this workshop will provide an opportunity to expand and deepen collaboration and involvement.