Thursday, June 28, 2012

German mediation committee agrees carbon capture law

Reuters: Germany's parliamentary mediation committee on Wednesday approved a compromise that would allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany on a test basis, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier said. CCS is seen as a vital technology to help reduce climate-warming carbon emissions from power plants in order to achieve legally binding climate change targets, but the technology remains commercially unproven and costly to develop. Through CCS, CO2 emissions are captured and stored underground,...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-germany-energy-co-idUSBRE85Q1JL20120627?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

No comments:

Post a Comment