Japan wants to ship carbon emissions to Malaysia in a first-of-its-kind project in Southeast Asia for carbon capture and storage. Supporters of the widely debated process say it is key to curbing climate change. Critics label it as greenwashing and an expensive distraction from more proven climate actions, like transitioning to renewable energy.
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FILE -A Malaysian motorist pumps his vehicle with gasoline at Petronas petrol station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July, 15, 2008. FILE -A Malaysian motorist pumps his vehicle with gasoline at Petronas petrol station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July, 15, 2008. FILE -Tourists take a selfie against Malaysia’s landmark building Petronas Twin Towers shrouded with haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sept. 26, 2015. FILE -Tourists take a selfie against Malaysia’s landmark building Petronas Twin Towers shrouded with haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sept. 26, 2015. FILE -The INEOS Energy’s Siri platform seen from a helicopter above the North Sea, Denmark, Nov. 25, 2025. FILE -The INEOS Energy’s Siri platform seen from a helicopter above the North Sea, Denmark, Nov. 25, 2025. BANGKOK, Thailand — Japan wants to ship carbon emissions to Malaysia in a first-of-its-kind project in Southeast Asia for carbon capture and storage, a. 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. 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.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.ShellThere 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 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.”Fossil fuels generate the lion’s share of energy in Japan, which is among the world’s top five highest carbon emitters.. 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.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 fromThe Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s
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