South-East Asia has big plans to become a regional carbon storage hub. Can it work or are the risks too great?
Climate change editor, David Fogarty, Grant Hauber , energy sector expert and advisor for Asia for the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis, a US-based think tank in the podcast studio.
For years now, we’ve heard a lot about carbon capture and storage as one possible solution to climate change. CCS, as it is known, involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions from polluting operations, such as power plants, refineries and steel and cement production and injecting the CO2 deep underground.
But CCS hasn’t taken off quite as well as many, especially those in the fossil fuel industry, had hoped for. There have been several very costly failures.
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