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Published online 14 October 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1004
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'Urgency' needed on carbon capture
But politicians fail to back their calls with fresh funding.
Energy ministers from 23 nations and the European Commission called yesterday for rapid advances in developing commercial projects to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground, but offered few new commitments.
"We must make it our goal to advance carbon capture and storage [CCS] technology to the point where widespread, affordable deployment can begin in eight to ten years," said US energy secretary Steven Chu at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum in London, a gathering of climate policy-makers.
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