Science|Business
Policy Analysis: Energy
Published: 03 May 2012
Will China take the lead in carbon capture and storage technologies?

David Pringle

With most of Europe’s demonstration projects on hold, it may come down to others to pioneer commercial use of carbon capture and storage and bring costs down, says Ronald Oxburgh, member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology


European Union governments are counting on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies as a crucial weapon in the battle against global warming. By siphoning off CO2 before it gets into the atmosphere, CCS technologies can sequester up to 90 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

But a shortage of funding, combined with public opposition, has stymied the launch of 12 planned CCS demonstration projects in the EU. Most have been...

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