Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could play an important role in the energy mix in the second half of the century, according to a new report from the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College, London.

In its new white paper, Can technology unlock ‘unburnable carbon’?, the institute said previous studies have shown CCS has a limited impact on the amount of fossil fuel resources that can be used in a 2degC climate scenario, but that these studies only looked considered the period up to 2050.