CONTROLLING CARBON EMISSIONS:
THE OPTION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION
E. TZIMAS and S. PETEVES
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY
Petten, The Netherlands
Report EUR 20752 EN
Mission of the Institute for Energy
The Institute for Energy provides scientific and technical support for the conception, development,
implementation and monitoring of community policies related to energy.
Special emphasis is given to the security of energy supply and to sustainable and safe energy production.
European Commission
Joint Research Centre (DG JRC)
Institute for Energy
Petten
The Netherlands
Contact:
E. Tzimas
+31-224-565149
S. Peteves
+31-224-565245
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COVER: Picture adopted from the photo library of Public Power Corporation’s website
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Sustainable Energy Technologies
Reference and Information System
(SETRIS)
The objective of SETRIS is to collect, harmonise and validate information on
sustainable energy technologies and perform related techno-economic
assessments to establish, in collaboration with all relevant nation