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Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) will be a game changer in the fight against global climate change. It is an essential part of the solution considering its ability to avoid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at their source and enable large-scale reduction of CO2 already in the atmosphere via removal technologies. This theme can be sub-categorised into “learnings from global best practices” and “matching these best practices to the Indian contexts”.

India holds a substantial geological sequestration potential in its basaltic rocks, coal seams, depleted oil reserves, soils, deep saline aquifers and sedimentary basins. At this moment, no carbon capture and storage/clean development mechanism projects is operational in the country. However, several studies point towards large theoretical capacity potential which can range from 63 to 500+ Gigatonnes (Gt). In this session, the speakers will address:

• Potential business models for collaboration across companies and across industries to assess and create opportunities in India
• Required policy framework to support such collaborations
• Storage potential assessment methodologies
• CO2 EOR for utilisation but also for sequestration
• Spatial analysis to assess suitable source-sink matching to mitigate non-technical risk
• Risk assessment methodologies including technology advancements in enabling sequestration and monitoring of the leakage

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Besides forests which are the most well-known nature-based solution to prevent climate change, there could be others like the peatlands, mangroves, wetlands, grasslands, coral reefs etc. Use of large-scale re-forestation as a natural CO2 sink is a key element of emissions management across the globe. The speakers at this session would dwell upon these themes and highlight the challenges and opportunities in this space.

Under this theme there would also presentations on the use of biogenic wastes to meet the energy needs of the country through the manufacture of biofuels like CBG, Second Generation Ethanol, Biodiesel, etc.

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This session will provide a common platform to explore and to discuss the opportunities of sectoral decarbonisation to tackle the growing challenge of climate change. Industrial decarbonisation requires development and deployment of medium to long term innovative low carbon technologies across all the “hard to abate” sectors (cement, steel, aviation, shipping, industrial project delivery, etc.).

The session will aim to address crucial elements like:

• Current state of carbon capture technologies to support sectoral decarbonisation
• Exiting infrastructure in India to support sectoral decarbonisation and the need for further improvements/upgrades in this area
• Challenges in the project developments aimed at sectoral decarbonisation across industries
• System design and engineering to provide a science-based approach to address the complex problem of decarbonisation.
• Innovations and policy interventions to make sectoral decarbonisation viable and sustainable
• Role of circular economy (for example plastic circularity) to manage the net emissions

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Hydrogen is one of the most promising alternate energy systems. Understanding of the full hydrogen value chain and enabling the hydrogen economy will be key to achieve global energy transition goals including in India.

The session focuses on the current stage of technology, affordability of grey, blue, turquoise and green hydrogen projects, existing infrastructures and gaps in these areas to realise full value of the hydrogen value chain. Inter-alia the themes to be discussed in this session will relate to:

1. The current demand and supply in India and the future—can India be the key hydrogen supplier of the world?
2. Current state of infrastructure and manufacturing cost of grey, blue, turquoise and green hydrogen—innovation and problem solving needed to make it competitive with other fuels
3. State of infrastructure for the long distance H2 molecule transport and opportunities to use various vectors
4. Role of policy frameworks, partnership, and innovations in making India manufacturing hub for the electrolyser 
5. Current state of affairs of Hydrogen Mobility and the roadmap for future

The session will highlight key gaps and opportunities in the policy framework, technology, and infrastructure development to help India ushers into a viable and sustainable hydrogen economy.