Bali talks won't agree carbon capture: U.N. official - Reuters

Source: Reuters

Bali talks won't agree carbon capture: U.N. official
Tue Dec 4, 2007 7:27am EST

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Current talks in Bali on
climate change will not decide to include support for the
burying of greenhouse gases as part of a successor deal
to the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.'s top climate official said.

But the talks may put the so-far unproven technology,
carbon capture and storage, on the agenda for future
backing, Yvo de Boer told Reuters in an interview on
Tuesday.

About 190 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia,
aiming to launch two years of talks to agree a new
global climate change pact to succeed the Kyoto
Protocol after 2012.

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"I think more pilot projects have to be done, more
analytical work has to be done really to convince the
skeptics that this is a technology that can be safely
applied."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0466167620071204

I was concerned in case the BushCo contribution would be to derail the
"reducing" side of things for the sake of the so-called "sequestration"
boondoggle.

> "I think more pilot projects have to be done, more
> analytical work has to be done really to convince the
> skeptics that this is a technology that can be safely
> applied."

It will take an awful lot of *evidence* to convince "skeptics" but all
they've generated so far is marketing waffle and PowerPoint slides.