IPCC: Go big on clean energy and catch carbon

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It is a beguiling idea: grow crops that suck carbon dioxide from the air, burn them to generate electricity, then bury the resulting COsub^ 2^. The result? Less COsub^ 2^ in the air, and less climate change. This idea's time has come. The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says "widespread" use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 degrees C, the politically agreed danger threshold