Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to provide support for the use of carbon capture technology in the developing world additional to the £60 million committed to the International Climate Fund in 2012.

The CCS Capacity Building Programme to which the Government committed £60 million from the International Climate Fund in 2012 is a multi-year programme currently underway, providing support for the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in emerging economies, through developing the technical and institutional knowledge required for CCS deployment.

In addition, the UK is a member of Mission Innovation, an international initiative which aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Under Mission Innovation, the UK is participating in the Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge, which includes emerging economies with an interest in CCS technology. ^[1]

[1] http://mission-innovation.net/our-work/innovation-challenges/carbon-capture-challenge/