Carbon capture: essential climate tool or fossil-fuel lifeline?
Carbon capture and storage promises to mop up emissions from industries that are hard to clean up. Critics say it's costly, unproven at scale, and mostly an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels.
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Supporters — including the IPCC — argue CCS is needed to cut emissions from hard-to-abate sectors like cement and steel, and to remove CO2 already in the air, as one tool among many on the path to net zero.
Critics note that after 50 years CCS has captured a tiny fraction of emissions, is far costlier than wind and solar, often serves to pump out more oil, and risks prolonging fossil-fuel use under a green veneer.
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