This is the percentage of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that will be achieved by CO2 storage by 2050.
The idea of storing CO2 emerged from the Grenelle Environmental round tables in 2008. The French Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) examined several projects aiming to test the sequestration of carbon dioxide emitted by industrial zones, in French substrata.
This revolutionary technology can drastically reduce CO2 emissions, by recuperating and stocking them in specialised infrastructures. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calculated in 2005 that carbon dioxide sequestration could reduce greenhouse emissions by 15% to 20%.
Already identified by the Grenelle as one of the priority sectors in the fight against climate change, this storage technology is also supported by the IPCC and the European Union and appears today to be a genuine solution, no longer merely a futuristic technology.
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