Could carbon capture impede climate change?

In a bid to understand the issues surrounding global climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned to produce a report. Here we look at one of his findings, a potential option to mitigate the effects of increasing temperatures and its viability

Global climate change has become a popular topic for discussion. The growing body of research has led to a consensus among the scientific community that human economic activities are causing temperatures to increase around the globe. In 2006, Chancellor Gordon Brown commissioned Sir Nicholas Stern, formerly chief economist at the World Bank, to produce a report to serve as a contribution to assessing the evidence and building understanding of the economic of climate change. In his report, Stern outlines a range of potential options including policy and technologies to mitigate the effects...