U.S. climate envoy John Kerry challenged oil producers to prove their technological capacities a sufficient alternative for transitioning into renewables.
During an interview with The Associated Press, Kerry said it is time to test the applicability of carbon capturing and other similar technologies.
If done so, using fossil fuels would not be as harmful as it is for climate. “What they’re banking on is that they’re going to be able to do the emissions capture,” Kerry said.
“If you can do those things, you may be able to make it economically competitive.” Kerry voiced his doubts about the ability of making such technologies available at scale with reasonable pricing.
The International Energy Agency, along other climate advocates, are asserting it will still be needed to phase out oil and gas anyways.
“Actual experience has been that commercial-scale carbon capture projects have fallen far, far short of the claims,” David Schlissel of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis underscored.
U.S. Climate Envoy maintained his position that the ideal solution is a fast, global switch to renewable energy. “… we can’t sit here and just pretend we’re going to automatically have something we don’t have today. Because we might not. It might not work,” Kerry said.
