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What s holding back carbon capture in China?
A man catching fish with a net in the Huangpu river, across the Wujing Coal-Electricity Power Station in Shanghai. China s total annual carbon emissions amounted to 10 billion tons in 2018.PHOTO: AFP
By Matthew Walsh
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In Depth: What’s Holding Back Carbon Capture in China?
China’s
bold pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2060 has set the stage for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter to boost technologies that absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide from pollution sources, put it to industrial use and stop it from entering the atmosphere.
But the Asian giant faces serious challenges to ramping up carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), with high costs, weak economic incentives and rickety legal support hindering the industry’s growth problems compounded by the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although CCUS cannot single-handedly cut carbon emissions at the scale needed to reverse climate change, experts said the suite of techniques is crucial for reaching