Aurélien Barrau

Group says forcing polluters to store carbon dioxide underground is needed to help world reach net zero

Carbon capture and storage schemes, a key plank of many governments’ net zero plans, “is not a climate solution”, the author of a major new report on the technology has said. Researchers for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) found underperforming carbon capture projects considerably outnumbered successful ones by large margins.

From turning CO2 into rock to capturing the breath of office workers, a growing number of companies think the answer is yes

Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised