Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) webchat

Imagine you could press a button that would reduce overall CO₂ levels in the atmosphere by up to 20 ppm by 2050? (That's like wiping out more than 30 years' worth of global emissions from today's entire stock of planes, trains, buses, boats, lorries and cars.) You'd do it, wouldn't you?

That button would be labelled CCS (for CO₂ Capture and Storage). And the amount of CO₂ it could divert from the atmosphere is based on a Shell's Energy Scenarios work on greenhouse gases from now until 2050.

How it works is quite simple. Broadly, you take CO₂ from processes such as power generation and store it deep underground in areas such as depleted natural gas fields.

It's not the whole solution to climate change. But it looks like it might be part of it.

And as the world is producing more and more CO₂, now could be a good time to get the technology working for us.