“The circular carbon economy builds on the principles of circular economy and applies them to managing carbon emissions: to reduce the carbon that must be managed in the first place, to reuse carbon as an input to create feedstocks and fuels, to recycle carbon through the natural carbon cycle with bioenergy, and, unique to circular carbon economy, to remove excess carbon and store it.”
-King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center’s (KAPSARC), Guide to the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE), contributed to the G20 energy ministers’ communique endorsing CCE as, “a holistic, integrated, inclusive and pragmatic approach to managing emissions.” [KAPSARC]
