Foundation Partners

	The Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (the Department) is responsible for developing and maintaining policies and programs for the resources, energy and tourism industries. Key objectives of the Department include: achieving strong economic growth; resilient and secure energy systems; equitable distribution of the benefits of Australia’s resources, energy and tourism industries; and actively participating in a whole of government approach to domestic and international policies. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a key priority of the Department and the Department represents the Australian Government in a wide variety of relevant international and domestic forums. In Australia the Department supports CCS research, both pilot scale and commercial scale CCS demonstration projects and is managing the development of Australia’s offshore CO2 storage resources. The Department manages programs worth almost $3 billion aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of CCS. These include: the National Low Emissions Coal Initiative; the CCS Flagships Program; the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute; and Australian support for international CCS initiatives.

	The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) is the Australian Government's trade and investment development agency. Through our global network of offices Austrade provides the local knowledge and insight you need to locate and develop Australian trade and investment opportunities. In the carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector Austrade can: provide information on Australia’s investment environment and CCS regulatory regime; identify potential CCS investment projects and research partners in Australia; identify opportunities to provide technology, equipment and services to CCS projects in Australia; assist you in organising visits to meet potential partners in Australia. For more information visit www.austrade.gov.au, or contact Russell Baker, Senior Industry Adviser in Canberra at russell.baker@austrade.gov.au (+ 612 6201 8352).

	Victoria’s Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is responsible for agriculture, fisheries, earth resources, energy and forestry. These industries make a fundamental contribution to the State’s wealth and wellbeing by producing essential food, fibre, energy, minerals and building materials. DPI is one of 11 Victorian Government departments. It employs more than 2,500 staff at 76 locations across the State and reports to the Minister for Energy and Resources and the Minister for Agriculture. DPI designs and delivers Victorian Government policies and programs. Its activities are broad and far-reaching, offering employment opportunities in science, research, policy development, extension activities, business and administration. Importantly, DPI develops programs to assist the primary and energy industries to increase their productivity, competitiveness and sustainability. It provides industry with the tools and incentives to adapt to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This mandate includes investigating new, low emissions technologies for coal. This includes the potential of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could slash Victoria’s carbon emissions. Victoria was the first state to bring a carbon storage project into operation and develop stand alone legislation specific to carbon storage. Partnerships with industry, government and the research community are an important component of how CCS projects will be delivered. The Victorian Government supports CCS projects both offshore and onshore, and also provides funding for new for large-scale, pre-commercial CCS demonstration projects. Various aspects of CCS have been tested overseas, and Victoria has several successful demonstration projects. If the integrated process proves to be effective and feasible, the Latrobe Valley in the state’s south-east could see a range of new industries developing in the decades to come.

	The Global CCS Institute works collaboratively with organisations and governments to accelerate the broad deployment of commercial CCS, ensuring that the technology plays a role in responding to the world’s need for a low carbon energy future. In the demonstration phase for CCS technology, the interim goal for the Institute is to accelerate the development of 20 commercial-scale integrated demonstration projects with the aim of reaching this target set by the G8 prior to 2020. The Institute also plays an important role in implementing various strategies to ensure that CCS technology moves beyond the demonstration phase to broader commercial deployment.

	The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is one of the world’s leading collaborative research organisations focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS). CO2CRC is a non-profit joint venture of industry, government, universities and research bodies from Australia and overseas who provide financial and in-kind support to the Centre. CO2CRC researches the full range of CCS technologies, from capture, transport and storage to economics, risk assessment and demonstration and operates three major CCS demonstration projects in Australia: The CO2CRC Otway Project, currently Australia’s only demonstration of geological carbon dioxide storage The CO2CRC H3 Capture Project – researching post-combustion carbon dioxide capture at Hazelwood power station in Victoria The CO2CRC/HRL Capture Project – Australia’s only pre-combustion capture demonstration project. For more information visit www.co2crc.com.au or contact info@co2crc.com.au.

	The Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia’s national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research organisations in the world. CSIRO’s coal technology research is focused on maintaining the benefits that Australia’s coal resources bring to the nation and world while minimising the adverse environmental impacts of coal mining and coal-fired power generation. With significant activities underway in carbon capture and storage (CCS), CSIRO has a strong track record in both the underpinning science of CCS and working with industry on demonstration projects. CSIRO has an extensive post combustion capture research program and has committed significant resources to examine the safe and affordable storage of CO2 underground.

	The primary role of the Australian Coal Association (ACA) is to drive the development and employment of low emission coal technology including Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), through our management of the COAL21 Fund. The COAL21 Fund is raising over $1 Billion over 10 years from a voluntary levy on coal production to support the pre-commercial demonstration of low emissions technologies in the power generation sector (where over 95 per cent of emissions from coal occur) and supporting Research and Development. The coal industry, the ACA and its members are also active participants in a number of national and international programs and related to greenhouse issues and technology development. The ACA, also performs an advocacy role at the national level for the black coal industry, with a focus on sustainability and environmental responsibility.

	The Minerals Council of Australia is the peak industry organisation representing Australia’s exploration, mining and minerals processing industry, nationally and internationally, in its contribution to sustainable development and society. The MCA recognises that the future of the Australian minerals industry is inseparable from the global pursuit of sustainable development. Through the integration of economic progress, responsible social development and effective environmental management, the industry is committed to contributing to the sustained growth and prosperity of current and future generations. The MCA has been at the forefront of the debate over how to prepare Australia for a low-emission future advocating an integrated policy approach comprising: the development of a genuinely comprehensive global protocol for emissions abatement and adaptation that includes objectively measurable efforts from all major emitting nations; market-based policy measures that determine a carbon price to promote the abatement of emissions at the lowest cost; and policies that stimulate and ensure substantial investment in a broad range of technologies including the development and deployment of low emissions technologies in all energy sources.

	Brown Coal Innovation Australia (BCIA) is an independent, not-for-profit company with a mandate to co-invest with stakeholders in research and development of low emissions brown coal technologies. BCIA will address the challenges and opportunities of securing a sustainable future for Victoria's world-class brown coal resource by progressing new brown coal innovation and emissions reduction research and development initiatives and serving as a focal point for programs and projects already underway. Strategic management of investment in research and development and skills development underpins BCIA's innovation support and operational activities. BCIA funding will provide for multi-million dollar investment in key activities in the brown coal innovation value-chain, spanning from mine-mouth to the capture of greenhouse emissions. In pursuing its mission to invest proactively in the development of technologies and people that broadens the use of brown coal for a sustainable future, BCIA is: providing a key entry point and focus for the progression of shared research and development activity between industry, research and government stakeholders; focusing strongly on skills-development and the expansion of training opportunities to secure the scientific, engineering and trades expertise needed for development of new low emissions brown coal technologies.

	The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG) is an international collaborative research programme established in 1991 as an Implementing Agreement under the International Energy Agency (IEA). IEAGHG studies and evaluates technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions derived from the use of fossil fuels. The Programme aims to provide its members with definitive information on the role that technology can take in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. IEAGHG takes pride in being an informed but unbiased source of technical information on greenhouse gas mitigation.