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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Climate-wrecking emissions produced by the oil company of the Cop28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, would take hundreds of years to remove using the carbon capture technology he has been promoting.
Jonathan Noronha Gant from Global Witness said the findings proved carbon capture was “a dangerous red herring” that would do nothing to tackle the climate crisis.
If Al Jaber is serious – if we are serious – we must immediately reject the CCS [carbon capture and storage] false solution and tackle the existential oil and gas problem head on.’’
Campaigners are concerned that Al Jaber is going to use the Cop28, which starts next month in the United Arab Emirates, to promote technical solutions instead of pushing for large and rapid reductions in fossil fuel production and emissions.
Earlier this year, the Guardian revealed that the United Arab Emirates has the third biggest expansion plans for oil and gas in the world – surpassed only by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
In the US, a large percentage of CCS projects have failed, and a study in 2021 found that even among those that were successful, 81% of the carbon captured was actually used to produce more fossil fuels, as it was pumped underground to force out oil and gas.
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