US leads wealthy countries spending billions of public money on unproven ‘climate solutions’

Photo caption: A pipe carries carbon dioxide captured from emissions at a generating station in Thompsons, Texas, on 16 February 2017. Photo credit: Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg via Getty Images.  Article by Nina Lakhani. The Guardian – August 29, 2024.

Exclusive: Over $12bn in subsidies awarded for technologies like carbon capture experts call ‘colossal waste of money’

A handful of wealthy polluting countries led by the US are spending billions of dollars of public money on unproven climate solutions technologies that risk further delaying the transition away from fossil fuels, new analysis suggests. […]

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