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Malaysia and Japan plan major cross-border carbon capture project, despite climate benefit doubts
Japan intends to export its carbon emissions to Malaysia for storage. This pioneering Southeast Asian project aims to capture and bury carbon dioxide. Critics argue this technology is an expensive distraction from renewable energy. Malaysia seeks to become a hub for this alternative process. The initiative could influence other regional nations.
Bangkok, Japan wants to ship carbon emissions to Malaysia in a first-of-its-kind project in Southeast Asia for carbon capture and storage, a widely debated process that critics say is more symbolic than effective in curbing climate change.
Despite such doubts, Malaysia is positioning itself as Southeast Asia's hub for the alternative technology, a three-step process that captures, transports and buries carbon dioxide which contributes to climate change. With about 81% of Malaysia's electricity generated from fossil fuels, climate activists say carbon capture is an expensive distraction from proven emissions-reducing actions such as transitioning to renewable energy.
Japan, one of the world's top carbon emitters, plans to ship emissions from its heavily polluting industries -- spanning electric power, oil refining, cement, shipping and steel -- to Malaysia within the next few years. If the project succeeds, experts say it may blaze a path for other Southeast Asian nations with carbon storage potential, like Indonesia and Thailand.
Detractors say it will slow progress of already off-track global efforts to curb emissions.
The plan "dangerously shifts the burden of climate change onto Malaysia rather than onto Japan," said Rachel Kennerley, a carbon capture specialist with the Washington-based Center for International Environmental Law.
Doubts about carbon capture
The debated process starts with capturing emissions directly from a polluting source, like a refinery or power station. This can be done in different ways, such as retrofitting a facility to emit directly into a storage location or by building vacuumlike structures to suck up emissions.
While Japan and Malaysia have yet to share detailed plans, the carbon dioxide will likely then need to be separated from the other captured gasses emitted during industrial processes.
The carbon will then be liquefied and later transported in specially designed ships to burial sites, likely in depleted gas fields off the coast of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
After the liquefied carbon is injected into the ground the site will have to be monitored for leaks.
Some governments and fossil fuel giants like Exxon Mobil and Shell promote the strategy as a climate solution that buys time for countries and industries to transition to cleaner energy.
The European Union's first offshore carbon storage facility, taking emissions from Denmark and injecting them into the seabed below the North Sea, is due to start operating by mid-2026. A Norwegian facility launched last year is testing cross-border carbon shipments.
There is "an almost fantastical theoretical uptick" in carbon capture interest, said Grant Hauber, with the U.S.-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. He said it "offers a tantalizing promise that just won't deliver."
While the International Energy Agency considers carbon capture, utilization and storage a tool for curbing climate change, the IEA's latest Net Zero Emissions scenario forecasts it will contribute less than 5% of emission reductions by 2050.
Malaysia pushes for carbon capture
Malaysia passed a bill last year promoting the carbon capture industry. Without providing details, the Ministry of Economy, which declined to comment, projected the fledgling sector could add up to $250 billion to the economy within 30 years.
Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas company, Petronas, is leading the $1.1 billion construction of what will be world's largest offshore carbon storage facility, slated to begin operations by the end of the decade. Petronas declined to comment.
Rather than investing in proven decarbonization actions, like solar energy rollouts or grid development, Eqram Mustaqeem, who campaigned against carbon capture in Malaysia, said "we're spending high amounts of money on a technology that is under-delivering and unproven."
Japan pilots cross-border project
Fossil fuels generate the lion's share of energy in Japan, which is among the world's top five highest carbon emitters.
Japan is investing in nine carbon storage sites, three of them in Malaysia, to try to cut its net emissions. It estimates that by 2030, the sites will store 20 million tons of carbon annually, roughly 2% of Japan's yearly emissions.
Malaysia will likely be paid an undetermined amount per ton of emissions stored. Japan could then subtract those emissions from its total carbon output.
Officials from Japan's state agencies leading the project, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security, or JOGMEC, did not respond to requests for comment.
Government documents show a range of Japanese companies intend to ship emissions to Malaysia.
Carbon capture or climate colonialism'Ayumi Fukakusa, of the advocacy group, Friends of the Earth Japan, called the idea of exporting emissions to other countries "carbon colonialism."
Apart from the doubts about the effectiveness of carbon capture, critics also object to the idea of managing emissions rather than reducing them.
"Japan gets to keep polluting and driving climate change, while claiming to clean up' its emissions by shipping the carbon to Malaysia," said Kennerley of the Center for International Environmental Law. She said that will make Malaysia "a carbon dumping ground for industrial pollution" and detract from climate action.
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