Study Finds Carbon Capture in Asia May Add 25 Billion Tonnes in Emissions

A new study has called into question the effectiveness of carbon prisoner and storehouse (CCS) strategies in Asia, advising that wide relinquishment could inadvertently affect in 25 billion tonnes of fresh CO₂ emigrations by 2050. The exploration, which evaluates policy approaches across Asian power and artificial sectors, contends that CCS constantly serves as a support for continued reactionary energy use rather than as a truly decarbonising result.

Judges argue that while CCS is retailed as enabling emigrations control for hard-to-abate diligence, in practice the technology remains expensive, unreliable, and substantially stationed to extend the viability of coal, oil painting, and gas structure. Relinquishment of CCS in China, India, Japan, and Southeast Asia is likely to lock countries into advanced emigrations pathways as being installations stay functional and new reactionary-grounded systems are justified on the base of unborn prisoner capability.

Critics of CCS call for programs to prioritise proven renewable energy sources, electrification, and energy effectiveness over unsafe and more precious schemes. The study’s authors recommend clear climate targets concentrated on phasing out reactionary energy reliance, icing CCS occupies a limited and explicitly transitional part rather than dominating long-term policy.

The findings add to a body of global exploration questioning whether CCS can be ramped up to deliver meaningful climate benefits in the coming decades, especially given the scale of investment and political support demanded.