CANCUN CLIMATE CONFERENCE MAKES PROGRESS ON CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE DEAL
December 1st, 2010
BY ERIC J LYMAN
ONE of the subsidiary bodies negotiating groups within the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun has finalised language that takes carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) to the brink of being included in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
While delegates from 194 countries continued to negotiate the extent of emissions reductions targets after the Kyoto Protocol's compliance period concludes in 2012, the inclusion of CCS in the CDM, the main mechanism that awards greenhouse emissions credits for ...
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