Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a vital lifeline to beat climate change, a raft of international ambassadors have said in a major report released today at the United Nation’s 24th Conference of Parties (COP24).
Speaking at the launch of its flagship report, the Global Status of CCS: 2018, in Katowice, Poland, the Global CCS Institute said the most recent and reputable information confirms that the world is way-off in meeting Paris targets and CCS must be deployed alongside other clean technologies if continued meteorological uncertainty is to be avoided.
This fact is supported in the report by 18 diverse proponents of CCS including 17-year-old polar explorer Jade Hameister, the youngest person to ski to the North Pole (14), the South Pole (16) and traverse the Greenland icecap (15).
She said, “Carbon capture and storage is one of the stand-out technologies that exists today. It will form part of the solution and must be pursued as if our lives depend on it – because they do.”
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