Coal chemicals: China's high-carbon clean coal programme?

Chi-Jen Yang

Climate Policy, 2017, vol. 17, issue 4, 470-475

Abstract: The Chinese government is promoting several coal conversion technologies as a part of its clean coal action plan. All of these coal conversion technologies have very high carbon footprints. The promoters of high-carbon technologies frequently invoke the possibility of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to justify high-carbon development. However, apart from two small pilot projects that capture less than 5% of their carbon emissions, none of the other coal-to-chemicals projects incorporate CCS operation. The Chinese government should disqualify the high-carbon coal chemical industry as ‘clean coal’ unless they sequester their carbon emissions.Policy relevanceThis article discusses a major contradiction in China's clean energy policy, namely high-carbon development in the name of the low-carbon clean coal policy.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1145571

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