Ten years ago, EU leaders said there were "huge possible global benefits of a sustainable use of fossil fuels".
They said, after a summit in Brussels in March 2007, that a technology called 'carbon capture and sequestration', also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), should be deployed with new fossil-fuel power plants by 2020.
This technology would reduce the negative impact the exte...
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