In climate change battle, negative-emissions tech not a panacea

Even if we manage to replace fossil fuels with clean-energy generation for transport, buildings, and industry alongside huge strides in energy conservation, there remain major sources of emissions for which no true mitigation measures yet exist.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to hit carbon neutrality by 2050. What is much less certain, is how they plan to do this.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SYBIL SEITZINGER

November 29, 2019

Negative-emissions technologies, while once an outlier among climate-change solutions, will undoubtedly be on the negotiating table at COP25 in Madrid, as nations wrestle with how they will meet—let alone extend—their commitments.

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