Necessity or distraction? How carbon capture and negative emissions debates are starting to heat up

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Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met

For decades debates about the role of carbon capture technologies in decarbonisation strategies have rumbled on in the background. But as both conventional carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems and...

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