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BELGIUM: June 24, 2003
BRUSSELS - The United States will join forces with the European Union and
other countries this week to develop a new technique to fight global
warming pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) underground, EU sources said yesterday.
The move will be another symbol of rapprochement between the EU and the
United States on the climate change issue. They fell out in 2000 when
Washington withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas
emissions.
"Carbon sequestration" is a way of keeping CO2 from fossil fuel use
entering the atmosphere and adding to the greenhouse effect which prevents
heat radiating back into space by injecting it into rock strata, mines or
gas or oilfields.
On the sidelines of a EU-U.S. summit in Washington on Wednesday, EU Energy
Commissioner Loyola de Palacio will sign an international charter with the
United States and other countries including Brazil, Canada, Russia and
China creating a "carbon sequestration leadership forum."
"It is a new charter on cleaning up carbon," an EU source told Reuters.
In a similar move earlier this month the EU and the United States agreed to
collaborate on researching hydrogen power, which could have less
environmental impact than other fuels.
Some environmentalists are sceptical of both hydrogen and carbon
sequestration, saying they will allow the continued use of fossil fuels
coal, oil and gas rather than a switch to renewable energies like solar and
wind and reducing energy use.
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