Can carbon capture save the day?
Instead of a carrot-and-stick approach to force the adoption of alternative fuels, why not follow what shipping did with sulphur-fuel limits in 2020 - impose a deadline? Industry will find a way.
Add BT as a preferred sourceIT HAS probably escaped nobody's attention that the great and good of our planet (or at least most of them) have descended on Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26.
This UK-hosted talkfest, officially the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, has been hyped up to the extent that whatever is achieved is likely to portrayed as a failure by many.
It is almost impossible to watch a TV news show without an earnest young person glowering at the screen and telling us that this is the last-chance saloon, and demanding that all coal mining stop by yesterday teatime, and all fossil fuel use, by breakfast tomorrow.
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