False Hope: Report shows why carbon capture and storage won’t save the climate

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) aims to reduce the climate impact of burning fossil fuels by capturing CO2 from power station smokestacks and disposing of it underground. Its future development has been widely promoted by the coal industry as a justification for the construction of new coal-fired power plants. A new report from Greenpeace International, based on peer-reviewed independent scientific research, will be published globally on Monday May 5 2008. This briefing summarises the report.

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