Forceful CCS introduction urged

The importance of CSS technology and the need to speed up its introduction was emphasised by Jeffery D. Sachs, professor of sustainable development at the Columbia University, at Vattenfall’s Energy and Climate Conference in Stockholm.

The carbon capture and sequestration technology in coal-fired power plants was described by Mr Sachs as “a major promise for the world as a way to combine continued economic development, especially in coal-based economies like China and India, with environmental sustainability”. “The fact that Vattenfall is making a major effort, a lot of investment, to demonstrate whether that technology works, and if it does, to then scale the use of it throughout the world, is very important, in my view.” Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. An interview with Mr Sachs is available at http://mnr2.world-television.com/vattenfall/433/ For further information, please contact: Mark Vadasz, Head of Group Media Relations, phone +46 (0)8 739 60 66, mobile +46 (0)70 344 61 50. From Vattenfall's Press Office, telephone: +46 (0)8-739 50 10.