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A pilot plant capturing CO2 in Germany in 2008 (Photo: Vattenfall)

EU-funded CO2-capture in China to miss 2020 deadline

It seems highly unlikely that the EU and China will meet their goal of setting up an EU co-financed "near-zero emissions" coal plant operational in China next year.

The European Commission, for the first time since EUobserver reported about a long-standing EU-China cooperation project on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in December 2017, has now admitted the partnership has run into challenges.

The admission came prior to the EU-China summit in Brussels on Tuesday (9 April).

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