Thursday, June 21, 2007

World needs rules for burying greenhouse gases: IEA

(Reuters) - The IEA said pilot projects for capturing gases -- emitted
mainly by burning fossil fuels in power plants, refineries, and
factories -- now accounted for just 0.05 percent of the
potential total by mid-century.




"There is a need...for a worldwide agreement on the legal
challenges," Claude Mandil, executive director of the IEA,
which advises 26 industrialized nations, told a news briefing
in Oslo during a conference on carbon capture and storage.


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