How fossil fuel lobbyists are skewing climate talks towards false solutions

Carbon capture will be a hot topic at this year’s COP28. Oil and gas companies say it’s a solution to the climate crisis – reducing emissions by removing carbon from the air, during industrial processes or when producing electricity.

The problem is, it doesn’t work at scale. Over 80% of projects that have been proposed globally have flopped, and currently carbon capture technologies are mainly used to extract more oil.

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