1. Government and Industry Collaboration is Key to Scaling CCUS

Rosie emphasized the critical role of collaboration between government and industry in advancing CCUS deployment in the Asia-Pacific region. She outlined practical pathways for decarbonization, highlighting Australian projects like Gorgon, Moomba, and the Northern Territory Low Emissions Hub, and regional examples in Malaysia and Indonesia. Her discussion illustrated how government mechanisms—such as carbon pricing, safeguard mechanisms, carbon credit units, and bilateral agreements—serve both as incentives and compliance measures that enable projects to progress. She also highlighted international practices, including EU storage mandates, US performance-based credits, and the UK and Germany’s contracts-for-difference approaches, emphasizing that successful CCS deployment globally relies on policy support, funding, and regulatory facilitation alongside industry innovation.​​​

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2. Operational CCS Projects Demonstrate Practical Decarbonization in Action

Glenn shared insights into Beach Energy’s decarbonization journey, focusing on the Moomba CCS project in the Cooper Basin. He highlighted the importance of combining government support, sustainability commitments, and regulatory compliance to achieve net-zero outcomes while maintaining operational feasibility. He discussed the collaboration with Santos and other partners to optimize CO2 management and leverage frameworks like ACCUs and safeguard mechanisms. Glenn underlined the need for early identification of CO2 streams, technical planning, and stakeholder coordination to scale CCS projects effectively, reflecting broader lessons for the industry in integrating long-term climate goals with practical operational and commercial considerations.

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3. Advancing cost-effective and flexible CO₂ shipping solutions for the APAC region

Masaki outlined NYK Line’s innovative approach to CO₂ transport through its joint venture KNCH, which provides low-, medium-, and elevated-pressure shipping solutions for carbon capture. He highlighted the energy-efficient EP mode, which reduces operational costs across the CO₂ value chain and tolerates higher impurity levels, enabling more flexible and economical capture processes. Masaki also emphasized NYK’s focus on developing integrated end-to-end solutions, including offshore liquefaction and storage, leveraging expertise from related ventures to optimize injection, transport, and storage, while advocating for cross-border G2G agreements to enable large-scale CCS deployment in APAC.

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4. Driving scalable CCS in Asia through technology and strategic collaboration

Mousa emphasized CCS as essential for Asia’s decarbonization, noting that the region accounts for over half of global emissions and faces complex challenges including limited storage in high-emission areas and immature regulatory frameworks. He stressed the need for standardized workflows, risk front-loading, and optimized site design to de-risk projects, highlighting SLB’s technological solutions for well integrity assessment, storage site characterization, and modular capture technologies like JustCatch and BigCatch. He underlined the importance of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and shipping solutions to enable scalable CCS deployment across hard-to-abate sectors in Asia.

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5. Ammonia Adoption Requires a Complete Ecosystem

Yosuke highlighted the development of ammonia as a marine alternative fuel, emphasizing the creation of bunkering hubs starting in Singapore and expanding along key global maritime routes. He stressed that successful adoption requires an integrated ecosystem—including fuel production, storage, bunkering, and vessel readiness—and compared ammonia with methanol, noting trade-offs in safety and carbon reduction potential.

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6. Scaling SAF Needs Policy and Innovation

Samuel outlined the potential of SAF to reduce aviation lifecycle emissions by up to 80%, describing Neste’s growing production capacity and feedstocks, from waste oils to lignocellulose. He emphasized the importance of policy mandates, voluntary airline commitments, and technological innovation, including power-to-liquid pathways coupled with carbon capture, to scale SAF adoption across the APAC region.

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7. OEMs Enable Immediate and Long-Term Decarbonization

Mallika shared Embraer’s sustainability targets, including carbon-neutral growth for Scope 1 & 2 emissions and net-zero by 2040, and the role of aircraft design in supporting SAF and alternative propulsion. She highlighted initiatives such as sustainable cabin materials, 3D printing to reduce weight, and research into hybrid electric, hydrogen fuel cell, and dual-fuel SAF/hydrogen concepts, underscoring the OEM’s role in enabling both immediate and long-term decarbonization pathways.