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Episode: Germany plans to enable underground storage of carbon dioxide at offshore sites
Description: Germany plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgment that time is running out to combat climate change, the country's vice chancellor said.
Europe's biggest economy is making good progress with expanding renewable energy sources and usage, but a solution is needed for the carbon dioxide emitted by some sectors such as the cement industry that are βhard to abate,β said Robert Habeck, who is also the economy and climate minister.
Habeck's proposed βcarbon management strategy,β which still needs to be turned into detailed legislation, foresees enabling the transport of carbon d...