POLICY BATTLE LINES FOCUS ON CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE IN POST-KYOTO TALKS
December 1st, 2008
BY ERIC LYMAN
BATTLE lines have been drawn in negotiations to renew the Kyoto Protocol over the future shape of energy policy within future United Nations efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At December's climate change summit, in Poznan, Poland, a key power industry issue has emerged as a primary point of discord: whether or not carbon capture and storage technologies should be allowed in a revised Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It gives developed countries carbon credits for releasing more of their own greenhouse gas emissions when they ...
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