Carbon Capture Technology and Storage in Poland

The book describes the results of AGaStor Project social research carried out in the North-Western Poland which recognize the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to the society.

At the national and regional level the social barriers of CCUS acceptance are ignorance, uncertainty and the lack of public debate about this technology. On the local scale social acceptance depends on the needs and fears of the local community. Some of those fears – distrust and perception of CO2 as a waste – could be recognized as the universal dilemmas connected with CCUS. Although, as knowledge about CCUS increases, a significant change in attitude can be observed, this change does not mean an acceptance of that technology. It is rather a shift toward more benign forms of resistance - from NIMBY to WIMBY. Then, the book presents actual mechanisms of social reaction to UGS and CCUS investment, which will be a valuable contribution to managing social change in the context of green transition.

The issue of social acceptance of CCUS should be of interest to decision-makers and practitioners who manage investment projects in the broadly understood green transformation on a daily basis, but also postgraduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in political studies, sociology or economics, but also in engineering studies connected with energy transformation.