United Nations Vote Legitimized Carbon Capture

Reporting shows that a 2005 meeting of UN climate scientists quietly adopted language that presented carbon capture and storage (CCS) as reliably permanent despite very limited empirical testing. The endorsement came amid pressure from oil‑exporting governments and fossil companies and helped cement CCS as a central assumption in climate models and policy. — If true, a routinized scientific legitimation of CCS explains why policy and investment repeatedly banked on large‑scale underground CO2 storage that later underperformed, shifting mitigation burdens and enabling continued fossil‑fuel reliance.