Australia Approves Seabed Site Where a Japanese Company Will Store Carbon Pollution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Fossil fuels generate a vast majority of its energy.
56% : Detractors say it will slow progress of already off-track global efforts to curb emissions and allow power plants and industrial facilities to continue burning fossil fuels under the promise of capturing the exhaust later. CCS projects are moving ahead: The United States has several in operation and the European Union's first offshore facility opened in September.
54% : Some governments and fossil fuel giants including Exxon Mobil and Shell promote the strategy as a climate solution that buys time for countries and industries to transition to cleaner energy.
54% : Japan says CCS is essential to meet its own climate goals Japan -- one of the world's top polluters -- has ambitious goals to reduce its carbon emissions by 60% by 2035 from the 2013 levels, and by 73% by 2040.
53% : "It enables decarbonization in areas where transitioning to non-fossil fuel alternatives -- such as electrification or the use of hydrogen -- is challenging.
46% : Environmentalists say the ramping up of CCS will prolong the use of heavily polluting fossil fuels.
41% : Critics say it will harm critical habitats and endangered wildlife while promoting a technology that prolongs the use of heavily polluting fossil fuels.
32% : "We see it as a greenwashing tactic that fossil fuel companies are using to green light continued pollution instead of doing the obvious choice of ramping down production and phasing out fossil fuels," said Deng.

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