The Economist was echoing the warnings of critics who had identified one of the major risks associated with pursuit of CCS as the way in which it would
undermine global mitigation efforts by giving national governments an excuse to do nothing in the hope that coal plants could be rendered safe.
Not exact matches
-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change
mitigation (much as he had
undermined Global Warming
mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).
The release of the roughly 200 petagrams (or 200 trillion kilograms) of carbon stored in the top meter of Arctic tundra would greatly
undermine any
global climate change
mitigation effort, Bunn warns.