Social Acceptance of CCS

– in relation with international efforts to establish understanding on CCS –

Abstract

In this review, the status quo of social acceptance of CCS is discussed in relation with international efforts to establish understanding on CCS. The author analyzed suspended 43 CCS project cases out of total 133 cases, and identified major impacting factors: economic reasons, legislative reasons, political reasons and social protests were 50%, 25%, 10% and 12% respectively. All of these impacting factors are within the range of social acceptance considerations, and could be solved by stakeholder engagement efforts. The author reviewed ISO/TC265 CCS standards which encourages to establish preferable social acceptance on CCS project by way of stakeholder engagement process and risk communication process. The author summarized recommendations from CCS stakeholder engagement process. Then, the author surveyed reports on public perceptions on CCS and CCS outreach works. Finally, the author researched literally succeeded and failed cases in of social acceptance gaining among communities in vicinity of CCS site and discussed the issue.