Click on the headings below to open lists of our policy outputs. Publications are ordered by year, document numbering is for our internal reference purposes.
Our policy outputs include:
Policy briefings
- CCS in a just, green post-Covid recovery
- SCCS Briefing: The role of CCS in a just transition
- Scotland’s Energy Strategy: The role of carbon dioxide capture and permanent storage
- Scottish CO₂ Hub - A unique opportunity for the United Kingdom
- Certificates for CCS at reduced public cost: securing the UK's energy and climate future, Energy Bill 2015
- Authorisation of carbon dioxide storage offshore Scotland - anticipated effects of further devolution
- Carbon Capture and Storage in the EU's 2030 climate and energy framework
- Carbon Capture and Storage in Scotland and the European Union
- Briefing: Carbon capture and storage in Scotland
- Race is on to capture carbon
Consultation responses
- SCCS response to BEIS consultation on CCUS cluster sequencing
- Fourth National Planning Framework SCCS response to Call for Ideas
- Offshore Wind consultation responses
- SCCS consultation response: Draft Strategic Management Plan for the Scottish Crown Estate - SCCS response
- SCCS consultation response: Crown Estate Scotland Draft Corporate Plan 2020-2023
- SCCS consultation response: Reuse of oil and gas assets for CCUS projects
- SCCS consultation response: Business models for CCUS
- SCCS response to consultation on the list of candidate Projects of Common Interest in cross-border carbon dioxide transport infrastructure
- Infrastructure Finance Review - SCCS consultation response to HM Treasury & Infrastructure and Projects Authority
- Industrial Energy Transformation Fund - SCCS response to BEIS consultation
- Strengthening the UK’s Offshore Oil and Gas Decommissioning Industry - SCCS response to BEIS and HM Treasury call for evidence
- Future Investment in Energy Infrastructure - SCCS response to BEIS Committee consultation
- RIIO-2 Sector-Specific Methodology - SCCS response to Ofgem consultation
- Clean Growth: Transforming Heating - SCCS Response to BEIS consultation
- Strategic Infrastructure Sector Plan: SCCS response to SEPA consultation
- The Production of Low Carbon Gas – SCCS response to Carbon Connect consultation
- Congestion, Capacity, Carbon: Priorities for National Infrastructure – SCCS response to the National Infrastructure Commission consultation on priorities for national infrastructure
- Clean Growth Strategy – SCCS response to the UK Government consultation on the Clean Growth Strategy
- Scottish Energy Strategy – Consultation Response
- SCCS response to consultation on the new Scottish Climate Change Bill
- SCCS response to consultation on the list of proposed projects of common interest for cross-border carbon dioxide transport
- SCCS Response to Consultation on the Long-term Management of the Crown Estate in Scotland
- Response to UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy consultation: Building our Industrial Strategy
- SCCS Response to Maximising Economic Recovery of Offshore UK Petroleum: Draft Strategy for Consultation
- Planning policy and the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in Scotland
- The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe Response to COM (2013) 180
Evidence to parliament
- Greenhouse gas removals: SCCS evidence to BEIS
- The role of hydrogen in net zero: evidence to the Science and Technology Committee
- Climate Change Plan update: evidence to EEFW and ECCLR Committees
- Climate Change Plan update: supplementary evidence to EEFW Committee
- Industrial decarbonisation: SCCS evidence to Infrastructure Commission for Scotland
- Land and Agriculture for a Just Transition: SCCS evidence to the Just Transition Commission
- Carbon Capture & Storage in a Just Transition: SCCS evidence to the Just Transition Commission
- Greening Britain through CCUS: SCCS evidence evidence to APPG on CCS inquiry
- Technologies for meeting Clean Growth emissions reduction targets: SCCS evidence to Science & Technology Select Committee
- Requested evidence to BEIS Committee Inquiry: CCUS - gas standards, hydrogen and GSMR
- Evidence to BEIS Committee Inquiry: CCUS – Supplementary RAB business models, gas networks, transport pipe re-use and decommissioning
- Publicly Owned Energy Company SCCS evidence to the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee
- Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage SCCS evidence to the Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Committee
- Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill: SCCS evidence to Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee
- The future of the oil and gas industry: SCCS evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee
- Scottish Crown Estate Bill: Evidence to Scottish Parliament Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee
- Supplementary evidence to Scottish Parliamentary EJFW Committee: CCS and heat
- Leaving the EU: implications for UK climate policy (SCCS submission to ECCC inquiry)
- SCCS response to Energy and Climate Change Committee inquiry into 2020 renewable heat and transport targets
- Environmental Audit Committee: submission to Sustainability and HM Treasury inquiry
- House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee Fifth Carbon Budget Enquiry
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the European Union Energy Union’s Governance
- Progress on Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK
- Evidence presented to Energy Bill 2010 Committee
