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UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre
Timeframe
November 2022 – June 2023
Overview
This project will aid timely Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) project delivery while meeting wider net zero and just transition commitments through focussed public policy and CCUS project level insight and evidence on the drivers, nature, and wider economy implications of wage-driven employment displacement risk in different time frames where UK labour supply constraints prevail and persist.
Using our applied economy-wide (computable general equilibrium, CGE) modelling framework we have developed for the UK, we will further build focussed understanding and evidence on how:
- current and persisting UK labour supply constraints may impact not only on the costs of delivering CCUS projects within set timeframes; and
- wage-driven pressures further impact the cost-of-living and -doing-business across the UK economy.
Publications
- Industrial carbon capture utilisation and storage in the UK: the importance of wage responses in conditioning the outcomes of a new UK CO2 Transport and Storage industry emerging in a labour supply constrained economy - Karen Turner, Antonios Katris, Abdoul Karim Zanhouo, Christian Calvillo, Julia Race, December 2023
- Jobs and UK CCUS : the constrained employment impacts of a new UK CO2 Transport and Storage Industry - Karen Turner, Antonios Katris, Christian Calvillo, Julia Race and Hannah Corbett, June 2023
The central focus is the key issue of jobs displacement across different sectors of the economy. The project will address two core research questions:
- What are the key drivers and mechanisms governing net employment, wage, and wider cost outcomes of investing in and delivering CO2 transport and storage projects both for CCUS-relevant industries and across all other sectors of the economy in different near, medium, and longer- term timeframes?
- How can understanding of these key ‘moving parts’ inform potential policy solutions to alleviate the impacts of persisting labour supply constraints and/or cost and price pressures thereof under different circumstances and timeframes
- Integrating CCUS services into the UK economy : the challenge of persisting labour supply shortages and constraints - Karen Turner, Antonios Katris, Abdoul Karim Zanzhouo, Julia Race and Hannah Corbett, February 2023