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Doubts about CCS
With industrial production estimated to be responsible for an ever greater proportion of global CO2 emissions, the International Energy Agency is advising that the world needs more than 3,000 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plants by the year 2050.
Nick Otter, chief executive of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, is upbeat, telling the Financial [...]
Business matters: Trends
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that manufacturing industry can improve its energy efficiency by an impressive 18 to 26%, while reducing the sector’s CO2 emissions by 19 to 32% based on proven technology.
If governments continue to make good on pledges to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, and businesses maintain investments in climate [...]
Carbon capture and storage:
A necessary climate mitigation tool
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
The next industrial revolution
Nobuo Tanaka looks at the technologies for reducing industrial CO2 emissions and the policies that are needed to ensure their widespread use.