Can China clean up its act?
By Toby Vogel - 23.04.2009 / 00:00 CET
Finding ways to cut emissions will be vital for a country that relies on coal for so much of its power.
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Fact file
Indian resistance to CCS
India is the world's third-largest consumer of coal and its fourth-largest coal producer – after China, the US and Australia. But it is way behind China when it comes to co-operating with the EU on developing CCS, reflecting the Indian government's doubts about CSS as a viable technology.
Shyam Saran, the Indian prime minister's special envoy for climate change, said last week (13 April) that CCS was “not a proven technology”. At an energy seminar in New Delhi, he said that many technical parameters still needed to be worked out.
Saran said that CCS was “certainly not economically feasible” because it would double the cost of a coal-burning power plant.
Talks in an EU-India working group on clean coal technologies have not yet led to the more tangible projects the EU is undertaking with China.
The focus in India is on enhancing the efficiency of existing and future power plants. Nevertheless, some student exchanges and workshops on CCS have taken place, and the UK has also begun projects that could lead to greater acceptance of the technology by the Indian authorities.
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