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  • 2024/11/15

    From 11th to 22nd November 2024, Japan CCS is exhibiting a booth at Japan Pavilion during the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Yoshihiro Sawada, Corporate Adviser and General Manager of International Affairs Department, was interviewed by the Azerbaijan State News Agency (Azertag) in which he emphasized that technology is essential to mitigate global warming, and that CCS will contribute to this. Click here to read the article.

  • 2023/11

    The Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project is featured in “CCUS Policies and Business Models: Building a Commercial Market” issued by IEA in November 2023. The Tomakomai Project is introduced in Chapter 5:  A policy toolkit: Community Engagement’s column “Enabling social acceptance of CCUS by showing community benefits” (P96). The column explains that “the Tomakomai Project employed a sustained public engagement campaign which contributed to the project’s success. The project developer, JCCS, designed and conducted public outreach with the objective of ensuring that local stakeholders in the city of Tomakomai (population 170 000) and surrounding areas understood the project, the safety and security of CO2 storage, and the purpose of CCUS”.

  • 2022/12/08

    The Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project is featured in “CO2 storage resources and their development – An IEA CCUS Handbook” issued by IEA in December 2022. The Tomakomai Project is introduced in Chapter 7: Technical risks as a case study: CO2 storage in an earthquake-prone region (P85). The column describes Japan CCS’s quick response to a Mw 6.6 September 2018 earthquake where it disclosed data confirming that there was no CO2 leakage. Japan CCS is also mentioned in P71, P97 and P98.

  • 2022/01/26

    An article entitled “Momentum of Large-Scale CCUS in Asia” in the NEWSROOM of International CCS Knowledge Centre published on January 26, 2022 mentions that “the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project displays the safety and reliability of CCS technology for offshore CO2 storage in an earthquake-prone country”, with a reference to the JCCS website.

  • 2021/11/09

    The Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project being introduced on the European news channel “Euronews”. Please click here to view the program.

  • 2021/06/22

    A video of the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project is listed as a recommended link on the website of Asia CCUS Network.

  • 2021/06/15

    Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project featured in IEAGHG Annual Review 2020. A photo image of Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Center is featured in the contents page (P3), and the Tomakomai Project is mentioned in Technical Report 2020-02 IEAGHG Monitoring & Environmental Research Combined Networks Meeting (P21) with regard to experiences provided in relation to stakeholder management in the event of natural earthquakes.