Government must invest in carbon capture or risk missing net zero targets, NIC warns

By Jordan Marshall2021-07-29T05:00:00

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National Infrastructure Commission says wide-scale deployment is needed by 2030

The UK government must ensure greenhouse gas removal technologies are being widely used by 2030 in order to meet its climate change obligations, a report by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has warned.

According to the report, the engineered removal and storage of carbon dioxide offers the most realistic way of mitigating the emissions expected to remain by the 2040s from sources that don’t currently have a decarbonisation solution, like aviation and agriculture.

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