Mexican and Scottish Scientists Team Up to Battle Climate Change teleSUR
go to original May 30, 2016

A view of Mexico City during the ‘Phase 1 emergency’ declared in March 2016 as air pollution reached even more alarming levels than usual. (AFP)

Listen: On a bad day, you cannot see forever in Mexico City. That's how it has been lately, ever since the city government rang the alarm bells over its air pollution.

Scottish and Mexican scientists have come together in Mexico City, one of the world's most contaminated cities, to achieve the Latin American country's goal of reducing carbon emissions by developing capture utilization and storage (CCUS) capacity, Energy Voices reported Monday.

CCUS captures carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and industrial facilities and stores it permanently in deep geological formations or provides CO2 for processes, such as petroleum production. Mexico‘s goal is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent below 2002 levels by 2050.

Representatives from SENER, Mexico’s Energy Ministry, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, and the Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) research partnership met in Mexico City in the third week of May.

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