EUROPE NEEDS CARBON CAPTURE TO REDUCE ITS CO2 EMISSIONS – BUT IS SLOW TO ROLL-OUT THE TECHNOLOGY
January 1st, 2016
The European Union’s (EU) Energy Roadmap 2050 project is certainly ambitious – looking to decarbonise Europe’s energy sector – and it anticipates that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will play an important role. Yet, it is clear that this technology is far from ubiquitous and significant efforts will be required to enable CCS to play a key part in Europe’s CCS future.
Britain is not helping. In a blow for the industry, in November 2015, the centre-right UK government, which since May has been shorn of its pro-green Liberal Democrat junior ...
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