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Ramping up carbon capture could be key to mitigating climate change

4 years ago
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191209182006.htm

The study -- from The University of Texas at Austin, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Equinor Research Centre -- looks at the technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is a method of capturing carbon dioxide from industrial and power plants and storing it more than a mile underground within tiny spaces in the rock.

The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that CCS needs to achieve 13% of the world's necessary emission reductions by 2050. Some policy-makers, industry representatives and nongovernment organizations are dubious that CCS can meet its portion of the goal, but the new study published in Nature Scientific Reports shows that CCS could achieve its targets.