Fossil-fuel producing nations lobbied on key aspects of the UN climate report released this week, with carbon capture technology emerging as one of the flashpoints in eleventh-hour discussions between government negotiators signing off on the definitive climate change research.
Discussions were sent into overtime as carbon capture and storage and carbon dioxide removal technologies featured among the issues thrashed out in debate about the final wording of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “summary for policymakers” at meetings in Interlaken, Switzerland.
The report concluded that global warming in the near-term was “more likely than not” to see a rise in temperature of 1.5C since pre-industrial times and called for urgent action to address climate change.