A few days ago an interesting analysis by Sandra Laville in the Guardian discussed limitations of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in solving climate crisis. The UK government gives this technology its full support, mainly as a green light to its announcement of hundreds of new oil and gas licenses on 31st July. Stuart Haszeldine, professor of CCS at the University of Edinburgh compares this situation with “ordering a truckload of cigarettes for someone giving up smoking”. There is no effective carbon capture and storage without increasing renewable energy.
However, another simpler “solution” for carbon storage is to safeguard wetlands restoration, the habitat with natural capacity to sequester huge amounts of carbon. The big EU project RESTORE4Cs has just been announced, the project that will further the knowledge of different wetland habitats across EU and develop collaboration between scientists, policy makers and local communities.
