We're Placing Far Too Much Hope in Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air, Scientists Warn

Shell Quest Carbon capture facility, Fort Saskatchewan (Source: Pembina Institute)

Overreliance on negative emissions as solution could prevent global climate stabilization

While noting that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be combined with biomass to produce negative net emissions, MIT Energy Initiative/Joint Program Senior Research Engineer and CCS expert Howard Herzog argues that “the focus of today should be on mitigation as opposed to worrying about negative emissions sometime in the future.”

 

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Date: 

Friday, October 14, 2016

Associated Joint Program People: 

Herzog, Howard