Climate change: Clean tech 'won't solve warming in time'
Source: BBC
Climate change: Clean tech 'won't solve warming in time'
By Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst
6 February 2020
Breakthrough technologies such as carbon capture and hydrogen cannot be relied on to help the UK meet its climate change targets, a report says.
The government had hoped that both technologies would contribute to emissions reductions required by 2050.
But the report’s authors say ministers should assume that neither carbon capture and storage (CCS) nor hydrogen will be running "at scale" by 2050.
They say the government must start a debate on other, controversial steps.
These actions, which they say would need to be implemented in the near-term, include cutting down on flying and eating red meat.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51389404
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