Attempts to reduce carbon emissions through changes in behaviour and taxing consumption are doomed to failure, according to a leading climate scientist. Instead, he suggests, producers of carbon-based fuels such as gas and oil should be made responsible for disposing of the carbon dioxide their fuels produces.
Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics Group at Oxford University, made his suggestion in a debate on the politics of climate change at the Sustainable Planet forum in Lyon. He told the conference: "Carbon comes into Europe through a couple of dozen pipes, ports and holes in the ground. It goes out through hundreds of millions of flues and exhaust pipes. Yet European climate policy is all about controlling the flow at the point of emission. It's like blowing air into a sponge and trying to slow it down by blocking up the holes."
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