By Jeff McMahon
If the world is ever to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, societies must capture emissions that can’t be avoided, an International Energy Agency expert said in Chicago Monday. But carbon-capture technology is not developing fast enough.
“We need to get real about CCS,” said Eric Masanet, the head of IEA’s Energy Demand Technology Unit, which is tasked with figuring out practical paths to the international community’s climate goals. “Based on the portfolio of technologies that we see as available and viable out to 2060, we can’t get there without CCS.”
In the United States, Carbon Capture and Storage has lacked support from either political party. Many Democrats won’t support it because it admits fossil fuels into a zero-carbon future. Many Republicans won’t support it because it means admitting climate change is real…
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