CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, is setting up two National Centers of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilization (NCOE-CCU) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru.

Detailed explanation-2: -NITI Aayog releases study report on ‘Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) Policy Framework and its Deployment Mechanism in India’

Detailed explanation-3: -The Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture and Removal will be Canada’s first-of-a-kind commercial-scale carbon capture and removal filter manufacturing facility, where Svante’s patented filter modules will be produced for the capture of carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere and from industrial flue gas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The centre will be funded by the Government of India and was formally sanctioned in December 2021. The primary focus of research for NCoE-CCU will involve understanding the role of carbon dioxide in the global climate and reduction strategies of the emission of carbon dioxide from the industrial and energy sectors.