On the morning of August 19, Dr. Chris Consoli, Chief Scientist of Quantitative Analysis and Research at the Global CCS Institute, was invited to deliver an academic lecture entitled “Mapping the Global CCS Landscape: Source-Sink Studies, the Rise of Networks and the Status of CCS” in Room 318 of the Comprehensive Building at China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (CUMTB). The lecture was attended by Professor Jingli Fan, Vice Dean of the School of Energy and Mining Engineering; Associate Professor Bing Wang, Party Branch Secretary of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering; Yi Wu, Project Manager of the China Office of the Global CCS Institute; and more than 30 faculty members and students from the School of Management and other schools. The lecture was chaired by Professor Jingli Fan.

Chris Consoli systematically explained the evolution of the global carbon capture and storage (CCS) landscape, with a particular focus on source-sink studies, the development of transport and storage networks, and the current status of CCS deployment. As CCS has gradually evolved from isolated individual projects toward integrated regional systems, source-sink matching has become a key component in identifying viable storage pathways and promoting the development of clustered infrastructure. The lecture placed these latest developments within the broader context of global CCS deployment progress and trends in other decarbonization technologies for in-depth analysis and discussion.

Following the lecture, faculty members and students engaged in in-depth exchanges and discussions with Chris Consoli on issues including multimodal CO₂ transportation and associated costs, competition for storage space under large-scale CCS deployment, and the future evolution of CCS project deployment. Chris Consoli responded to the questions in turn. This “Voice of Mining” Academic Forum provided faculty members and students with a high-level platform for international academic exchange, further broadening their academic horizons in the fields of energy transition and sustainable development and promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration.