Geo-engineering: massive potential, or massively implausible?

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The UN's top climate change chief has called for technologies that soak CO2 from the atmosphere - but are such techniques feasible? Tom Young investigates

The head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat this week told the Guardian that soaring levels of greenhouse gas emissions meant the world would have to develop "more powerful technologies to capture emissions...

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