News Article - 24 May 2012
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Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is one of the best ways to reduce the world's carbon emissions measurement, but "they must be proven in the next decade", according to the International Energy Agency.

The organisation has just released a study into the technology, which found that it can provide cost-effective carbon emissions measurement reduction.

However, the agency also says that there are only four full-scale CCS projects worldwide, with none used to capture carbon from a coal power plant.

"The window of opportunity is closing for the global community to cost-effectively address climate change," said the agency's executive director, Nobuo Tanaka, at the launch of the report.

"CCS technologies must play a key role, but first they must be proven in the next decade."

Nick Rau of Friends of the Earth said this month that if CCS is used in conjunction with combined heat and power (CHP) techniques, then coal would be preferable, environmentally-speaking, to nuclear power.

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