The Committee said that, given the uncertainties associated with this technology, the Scottish Government should “set out a plan B for how equivalent abatement could be achieved.”xivEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, report on the draft Climate Change Plan update, March 2021
In written evidence to the Committee, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland described them as"potentially expensive (both costly and inefficient), unreliable and unproven technologies".xvWritten submission, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
2050 Climate Group said CCS needed further evaluation before any decision was taken to use it given uncertainties about its long-term scalability and environmental impacts.xvWritten submission, 2050 Climate Group
Professor Kevin Anderson said:
If you look at the bit that is actually used and stored, CCS delivered only 11 million tonnes globally in 2024.