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Science In Action: Can carbon capture live up to its hype?

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Can carbon capture live up to its hype?

07/12/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Can carbon capture live up to its hype?

Climate expert Richard Black discusses the good, the bad and the ugly of carbon capture.

At COP28, much has been made of unabated emissions, i.e. burning fossil fuels without capturing the CO2. Is carbon capture really the silver bullet to stop climate change?

The burning of fossil fuels releases the greenhouse gas CO2. Many countries at COP28 have expressed an interest in using carbon capture technology to permanently capture and store this CO2. Climate and energy expert Dr Richard Black tells us more about this technology and how helpful it is in the fight against climate change. 

Sticking with COP28, Dr Manjana Milkoreit, from the University of Oslo, contributed to this week’s Global Tipping Points report, which revealed the Earth could be racing toward a set of critical thresholds that will put the Earth into a new state.  

Dr Joyce Kimutai is also at COP28. Originally from Kenya, she’s the lead author of a new paper from World Weather Attribution. The paper found that climate change has made deadly rainfall in East Africa up to two times more intense.  

And finally, this week Professor Dany Azar published a paper in Current Biology that not only identified the oldest fossilised mosquito, but also found that it was a male with blood-sucking mouthparts – a trait only seen in female mosquitoes today.  


Presenter: Roland Pease  
Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell 
Editor: Martin Smith   
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth 


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