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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBP Favors 2050 Target for Cutting CO2 to 2006 Levels, Sees 'Advanced' Biofuels, CO2 Storage Among Options
Renewable Fuel News, November, 2006 by Peckham, Jack
Oil major BP supports a world-wide effort to cut carbon dioxide global warming emissions by relying more upon renewables, greater efficiency, carbon capture & storage (CCS) and technology evolution, according to a top company official.
"Our current view is that the goal for the 2050s should be to bring total global [warming] emissions back to today's level or lower - in other words we have to cope with the projected growth in global demand while bringing emission levels back to and then below current levels," BP's Chris Wilks, VP-future fuels, told the Hart World Refining & Fuels Conference.
"This is consistent with the emerging consensus that policy should be targeted at stabilizing global average temperature rise to around 2 degrees Celsius," Wilks said,...
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