This year’s edition of Appleyard Lees’ Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report, covered innovation in carbon capture utilisation and storage technology (CCUS). The report revealed a steady upturn in CCUS patent filing numbers in recent years, with more than 140 in 2020 – a 60%-plus increase since 2015 – and an ongoing increase expected from 2021-22.
Appleyard Lees senior associate and patent attorney Sarah Gibbs said: “Capturing and storing carbon is essential to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global temperature increase to no more than two degrees Celsius and achieving net zero by 2050. Our research shows that the number and scale of CCUS projects worldwide is accelerating, including new storage site activity in the North Sea.”
Read the full report on carbon capture innovation by Sarah, and European patent attorney Ashley Wragg: Carbon capture – Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022
In November 2021, we published the first edition of our report, examining global progress in green innovation, and what it might mean to countries, commerce and the planet.
For 2022, we’ve refined the scope of the report. We have revisited the innovation areas of plastics, batteries and food production, and for the first time included analyses of technological developments in carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, heat pumps and solar energy, all of which are grouped into the categories of food, materials, and energy.
