World will need 'carbon sucking' technology by 2030s, scientists warn

These ideas include planting carbon-

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absorbing forests across large areas, then harvesting the wood for energy and pumping the emissions produced underground – a process likely to feature in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report next year.

Machines might also be developed to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and pump it underground or otherwise neutralise it.

But efforts to store captured carbon underground are “showing no progress … and even backwards steps in some cases”, said Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Underground carbon storage has been promoted as part of a push by the United States and other countries to develop “clean coal” technology.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/11/world-will-need-carbon-sucking-technology-by-2030s-scientists-warn