Exploring the Impacts of the Adopted Carbon Capture Approach to the Scottish Chemical Industry and the Wider Scottish Economy

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Abstract

The UK Climate Change Committee identifies carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) as essential to achieve net zero by 2050 and the UK Government is providing support to the rollout of CCUS in four of UK’s industrial clusters. However, carbon capture can be introduced in industries either post-combustion (post-production more generally) or pre-combustion with a substitution towards low or zero carbon fuels. Each approach has its own capital and energy requirements and therefore impacts the adopting industries in different ways. In this brief we discuss how the Scottish chemical industries, and by extension the wider Scottish economy, may be affected by the introduction of pre- or post-combustion carbon capture. We also discuss the implications of a UK-wide adoption of carbon capture in chemical industries versus unilateral actions by the Scottish chemical sector, while we explore the potential effects of government subsidies aiming to ease some of the price pressures associated with the introduction of carbon capture.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationGlasgow
PublisherUniversity of Strathclyde
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2024

Keywords

  • carbon capture
  • decarbonising industry
  • net zero
  • Scotland

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