UN blocks carbon capture's entry to CDM offset scheme

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Developing countries should not be technology testing ground, UN officials decide

Hopes that China and other emerging economies could soon access a new source of finance to fund the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies appear to have been dashed yesterday, after...

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