Around 30 countries participated in the second meeting of the ISO TC/265 committee, a global meeting held in Madrid on 4 and 5 February. At the meeting, the first proposals were drawn up to develop standards on capture, transport and storage with the efficient use of this technology, proposals aimed at areas such as CO2 capture technology and processes, energy consumption and efficiency in post-combustion CO2 capture in the energy industry.

Within this framework, Spanish companies are part of the development of what will be the future ISO international standards on CO2 capture, transport and storage. It is a novel technology that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thanks to the separation of CO2 from combustion gases in industrial processes and thermal power plants, and its subsequent transport and storage in the subsoil of specific geological areas.

Within the framework of this conference, the main world experiences were presented, as well as the specific cases developed in Spain, specifically in La Robla, Compostilla and Puertollano. At the international level, the meeting has served for the UN to accept some of the GHG emission reduction projects as a methodology for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects that seek to reduce the effects of climate change.