A new alliance of industry, academics and government will today officially launch a programme to deliver industrial decarbonisation in Scotland through the deployment of the UK’s first carbon capture, usage and storage technology.
The industry led coalition, known as NECCUS, will be instrumental in driving forward the development of CCUS which is recognised as essential if Scotland is to meet its target of reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2045.
The official agreement will be signed at Holyrood today at 15:00 GMT by Scotland’s Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse, MSP and NECCUS CEO Mike Smith and a range of industry heavyweights as well as experts from Scottish universities, who have come together to tackle climate change on an industrial scale.
CCUS is becoming increasingly commonplace around the world as a way of mitigating climate change.
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