Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

      As global population and industrialization of newly-emerging countries continue, renewable energy can only meet a small portion of the total demand by human, and total greenhouse gas emission amount is expected to continue to rise in the foreseeable future. With these factors in mind and data on carbon dioxide capture and storage on hand, the United Nations (UN) drew up a draft in an attempt to slow down climate change in their sixth annual conference.

      Besides UN’s effort, the US Department of Energy has also gathered a dozen countries and established the CSLF organization to push for carbon dioxide capture and storage. Many countries in the European Unions (EU) are also actively involved by holding international conferences regularly. Specifically, Norway has already begun implementing carbon dioxide storage along its territorial sea areas. Eight leading petroleum and electricity companies are also working with the US Department of Energy and EU to promote the heavily invested CCP program and its technological development. Even in the early 1990s, Japan had already begun establishing a relative-scale research institute related to technological and political economic studies.

      Because these topics are being intensely studied abroad but not in Taiwan, our foundation aims to broaden this topic and disseminate information via media in order to draw attention both in the public and related industries.