CCU: Dangerous distraction or essential for the energy transition?
Carbon capture and use can reduce, recycle or even remove emissions from the atmosphere, but its role in climate action depends on the carbon’s origin and destination.
Technology / Carbon removal
Carbon removal
The business case for CO2 removal in a net-zero world
The question is not whether trees, CCS and direct air capture are needed, but what will deliver carbon removal at scale.
CCS plant aims to slash emissions and waste
A waste-to-energy plant in Oslo, Norway, plans to use carbon capture and storage technology to reduce emissions by 90%.
After the Ten Point Plan: Next steps to net zero
The UK government’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution sketches out a map to a net-zero economy, but much still needs to be filled in.
Clean energy investors are betting on Biden
US clean energy stocks appear to have priced in a Biden win. But with policy details hazy and progress uncertain, the sector isn’t home and dry.
Renewables: more popular, cheaper and create more jobs than fossils
Renewable power is not generating more electricity than fossil fuels in Europe. Will this phenomenon disappear in the Covid recovery?
How carbon offsets can help solve climate change
What are carbon offsets, and can they really help avert the climate crisis? Or do they risk making it worse?
CCS in the UK depends on far more policy support
There is broad consensus that carbon capture and storage is a key factor in reducing industrial emissions, but a lack of decisive government action is stalling development.
