This Update on Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering globally. See here...
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CCUS is boosting corporate profits even though many schemes could actually result in more emissions
This Geoengineering Map Update on Carbon Capture Use and Storage technologies summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose...
Over-promising and under-delivering for half a century: CCS is still a risky and unproven technology
This Geoengineering Map Update on Carbon Capture and Storage technologies summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil society and climate justice movements to follow in their efforts to oppose geoengineering...
Pioneering coal plant with CCS isn’t viable, admits CEO
A new report by Greenpeace Energy Desk reveals that one of the US’s premier coal with carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants, the Kemper County Energy Facility, is not economically viable. The project, located in Kemper County, Mississippi, received...
Climate Change Policy and The Super-Hero Syndrome
by Roger Boyd (Resilience) There is a genre of Hollywood “feel-good” disaster movie, where everything seems nearly hopeless until the end, and then suddenly, many times against all hope, the super-hero (or super-heroes) saves the day. Whether it be human heroes that...
Using forests to curb climate change threatens human rights
by Fred Pearce (Thomson Reuters Foundation News) Trees offer ways to help achieve "negative emissions", but what does that mean for forest communities? The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was a landmark the world rightly applauded. Its pledge to limit global...
Radical Realism About Climate Change
by Lili Fuhr (Project Syndicate) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – an objective that...
With Sights Set on COP22, Group Offers Roadmap for ‘Fair Future’ in Warming World
by Nika Knight (Common Dreams) A sustainable solution to the climate crisis will also work to alleviate poverty and seek climate justice, says Friends of the Earth Germany "A future without climate chaos for all human beings on our planet is only possible if we don't...
A reliance on negative emissions technologies is locking in carbon addiction
University of Manchester The Paris Agreement on climate change and the carbon-reduction plans of many governments (including the UK) are unwittingly reliant on unproven technologies to suck hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere....
How a US energy company tried to sell its failing ‘clean coal’ project to the world
Below is an article published by Greenpeace's Energy Desk about the latest scandal involving the Kemper County CCS project. This is extremely relevant to the bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) debate: Kemper County was one of two flagship CCS projects supported by the Obama...