Climate expert urges EU to speed carbon capture`

Posted in September 2009

MUNICH (Reuters) - Carbon capture pilot projects must be made a political priority in Europe to ascertain whether the technology works and can be applied in emerging markets, an official of the United Nations climate panel said on Monday.

"The pilot projects must be realized, it is a political decision," said Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at a German utility congress.

"Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is indispensable if we want a new deal for the climate," Edenhofer said.

"It would be best to create joint ventures with China to test it there and to see if they have enough storage sites."

U.N. talks to agree a new global climate treaty in Copenhagen in December will have to address what Edenhofer called a worrying renaissance of coal-burning, the most carbon dioxide-polluting way to produce electricity.

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