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Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
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Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

IPCC
Cambridge UP, 2005

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Editorial Rating

8

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  • Innovative

Recommendation

This is probably the most extensive, comprehensive study of carbon dioxide capture and storage ever undertaken. Prepared under the aegis of Working Group III (Mitigation of Climate Change) of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it addresses a wide range of technical, economic and policy issues in great detail. The prose isn’t lively, but fortunately for the general reader, the text includes lucid executive summaries at the beginning of each chapter. getAbstract highly recommends this report to those who genuinely want to know the details of this potential (albeit partial) solution to the climate change problem.

Take-Aways

  • Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas implicated in climate change.
  • Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) involves isolating CO2 from other gases at the point of emission, and then compressing, transporting and storing it.
  • Storage possibilities include injection into geological formations or the deep ocean, or chemical conversion of carbon dioxide into carbonates.

About the Author

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity. The panel was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), two organizations of the United Nations.

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