Gas, carbon capture key for emissions reduction - BP

Gas, carbon capture key for emissions reduction - BP
Gavin Evans
Natural gas, especially when combined with carbon capture use and storage, can play a critical role meeting the world’s net-zero carbon targets, BP economist Michael Cohen says.While a net-zero global economy implies a 90 percent drop in coal use by 2050, and a 75 percent decline in oil use, modelling by BP suggests global gas use would fall only 35 percent by then.That could leave gas meeting about 20 percent of the world’s primary energy needs in 2050, a little under its current contribution, and about half the expected contributi...

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