News update from Eddie Proffitt 9/7/10

09.07.2010

1. "Chris Huhne today announced the start of a market sounding process for the UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Programme.

This is not a formal consultation, but is intended to help the Department to explore workable options for the CCS demonstration project selection and funding processes, and learn about projects being considered by industry.
Details of the market sounding and how to respond are available on the DECC website

2. China’s emissions increase in 2009 was more than the UK’s total CO2 emissions.

China will face increasing pressure in U.N. climate talks after data released recently showed the country’s carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel rose by 9 percent in 2009, bucking a global downtrend.

China’s CO2 from fossil fuels grew to 7.52 billion tonnes, even though global emissions dropped for the first time since 1998 as industrial production and fuel consumption fell amid a global recession, BP data showed.

China was the first nation ever to emit over 7 billion tonnes of CO2 in a single year and increased its lead over the United States, the second-largest emitter which it surpassed in 2008, BP said in its annual Statistical Review of World Energy.

China emitted nearly 1.6 billion tonnes more than the U.S., where emissions fell by 6.5 percent to 5.94 billion tonnes, the lowest level since 1995.

Global CO2 emissions dropped 1.1 percent to 31.13 billion tonnes after peaking at 31.55 billion tonnes in 2008, BP said.

To put this into a UK perspective, China’s emissions increased by 621 million tonnes CO2 to 7,520 million tonnes while the UK’s total CO2 emissions were 481 million tonnes.