Abstract
Storing carbon dioxide underground is an effective but expensive option to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a detailed report released this week. In recent years, scientists have studied whether industrial CO2 emissions could be socked away in vast geologically formed underground reservoirs. Geological storage could hold 80 years' worth of current CO2 emissions, says Bert Metz, co-chair of the working group that issued the new report. Local health and environmental risks would be minor. And the carbon will stay there, as the report finds underground carbon retention “likely” to exceed 99% over 1000 years.
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