Nairobi climate talks split on CDM carbon burial (Reuters)

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Nairobi climate talks split on CDM carbon burial

Nov 9, 2006 — NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks were split on Thursday
over whether to permit burial of heat-trapping gases in developing nations
under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.

"I can't predict whether it's going to be possible for this (meeting) to reach
agreement on that issue given the very wide divergence of views," Yvo de
Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Secretariat, told a news conference.

Some delegates at the November 6-17 talks favor giving investors from
industrialized nations credits for projects that would strip greenhouse gases
from Chinese or Indian coal-fired power plants, for instance, and bury them.

But others fear there are too many uncertainties about capturing and storing
carbon dioxide, such as trying to ensure that geological storage sites are
leak-proof.

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