The challenge of climate change is truly global. We need to act urgently to prevent the acceleration of global warming and meet the growing energy demands of Australia and the world.
The Australian coal industry has committed more than $1 billion to help develop technologies for low-emissions power generation.
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The Australian Coal Association (ACA) and its member companies recognise the urgent need to develop technologies for safe, reliable, low-emissions power generation. Climate change isn’t just happening. Many scientists think it’s accelerating.
This website is designed to explain the issues related to climate change that we face as an industry, a nation and globally, and the solutions we are working towards in Australia and worldwide.
Through the COAL21 Fund, the Australian black coal industry has committed over $1 billion to help develop low-emissions technologies such as carbon capture and storage. We believe a new generation of coal technologies will be an essential part of a global response to climate change.
Learn more about this site and the ACA and watch a video introduction to NewGenCoal by Ralph Hillman, the ACA’s Executive Director.
The process of injecting carbon dioxide deep underground has been in operation for decades.
When coal is burnt it produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
Carbon capture is a series of technologies that allow the CO2 produced from the burning of coal to be captured.
Carbon dioxide occurs naturally in the earth's subsurface.
Detailed monitoring of the Otway Basin has shown CO2 successfully injected two kilometres underground is behaving as predicted.