Currently, the U.S. is intimately interested in CO2 sequestration as it applies to environmental carbon management to impact greenhouse gas emissions, and control of global climate change. The primary drivers are the President's Global Climate Change Initiative, as well as several National Energy Policy goals targeting the development of new technologies. It also supports the goals of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and other international collaborations to reduce greenhouse gas intensity and greenhouse gas emissions. This effort is primarily focused on consequences associated with the production, transportation, and utilization of fossil resources such as crude oil, but also includes complementary, novel areas such as CO2 conversion that mimics natural processes (e.g., photosynthesis, or mollusk shell formation) to enable sequestration. The general areas of activity concern for the U.S. DOE are CO2 capture and carbon storage; monitoring, mitigation, and verification; fugitive methane control; and "breakthrough" R&D.
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