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Carbon 'capture' climate tech is booming, and confusing

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and direct air capture (DAC) are both complex industrial processes that isolate CO2 but these newly booming technologies are fundamentally different and often conflated.

Carbon capture and storage, conceptual artwork. (Science Photo Library via AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

PARIS - Humanity's failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions -- 41 billion tonnes in 2022 -- has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere

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