Introduction: CO₂ Capture and Storage (CCS) is being evaluated as a technology to secure the certain amount of CO₂ reduction and also the one which effect will be realistic after Kyoto protocol. IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage was submitted on September 2005 and the argument of the CDM utilizing CCS was done in first COP (11) after Kyoto protocol launched, MOP1 (the rule discussion for a setup of a goal). This workshop will make an opportunity to appeal more for dealing with the CCS technology in Japan.

Date: February 15th (Thu) 2007
Place: The Keihanna Plaza in Kyoto
           1-7, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Souraku-gun, KYOTO 619-0237 JAPAN
           http://www.keihanna-plaza.co.jp/eng/

Program:

• Opening remarks      Prof. Yoichi Kaya (Director-General of RITE )


• Guest Speech      Dr. Yutaka Suzuki (Vice President of University of Hyogo)



• Invited Speakers
• "CO₂ Capture and Storage - Current Status and Future Challenges"
  Mr. John Gale (Deputy General Manager of IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme)



• "Overview of European CCS projects and on the work going on at ECN and the Netherlands"
  Dr. Daniel Jansen (Netherlands, Programme manager clean fossil fuels of Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, ECN )



• "Status of and Perspectives on CCS in China"
  Mr. FU Ping (China, Program Officer Ministry of Science and Technology)



• "Japan's Recent Policy Development on CCS"
  Dr. Masahiro Nishio ( Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)



• Presentation from RITE researchers
• "Present and Future of CO₂ Capture technology "
  Dr. Yuichi Fujioka



• "Geophysical monitoring of geological CO₂ sequestration in saline aquifers
  --Lessons from the Nagaoka pilot-scale project--"
  Dr. Ziqiu Xue



• "Economic Evaluation of CO₂ Geological Storage in Japan"
  Mr. Masato Takagi



• "Perspective on CCS implementation in Japan"
  Dr. Takashi Ohsumi



• Closing remarks      Mr. Masaharu Higuchi, Senior Managing Director of RITE

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