CARBON MITIGATION: CLEAN COAL THROUGH CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE UNDER CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE SECURITY IN BANGLADESH
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CARBON MITIGATIONAbstract
The potentialities for adaptation of society and ecosystems will rapidly decline
with an increasing risk of community disruption through health impacts, water
shortages and food insecurity for climate change (CC). Bangladesh will be
severely affected causing untold suffering and instability for scarcity of food,
shelter, water and large-scale migration.
Fossil fuel contributes 80% of GHG. Coal is the major fossil fuel for generating
electricity in the industrialized nations and emerging economies. It will continue
to do so as long as it is cheap and plentiful. The major challenges for coal are its
‘impacts on environment for carbon dioxide (CO2).
Bangladesh has 3.3 Gt coal energy reserve awaiting exploration for subsequent
use for electricity production. Clean Coal Technology is the best option to use
available coal while ensuring energy and climate security. Bangladesh should
follow China and India in pursuance of Near Zero Emissions Coal (NZEC) and
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Bangladesh can harness this opportunity
for CC commitments under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and global
carbon emission trading. She can take the advantage of CCS’s contributions
towards sustainable development to coal-based Non-Annex I countries for Green
House Gases mitigation through use of CCS via CDM. CCS technologies enable emissions of CO2 to be stripped out of the exhaust
stream from coal-fired power stations and stored in depleted gas fields or
unmineable coal seams. The majority of the Bangladesh gas fields will deplete
by 2020-2030. Bangladesh gas fields and Coal Bed Methane (CBM) seams at
Jamalganj provide good prospect for carbon sequestration.
Bangladesh should strongly negotiate in the Conference of the Parties as one
of the most vulnerable countries of CC. Bangladesh can achieve billion dollars
economic as well as skilled jobs and advanced technologies benefits for CCS
from the developed countries.
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