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How the world came around to carbon capture storage

How the world came around to carbon capture storage

A fragile consensus is growing across industry, governments and the environment movement that carbon capture and storage is essential for meeting climate goals.

Phil Hodgson's company Calix is winning admirers for its work extracting carbon dioxide from cement in Europe. Alf Mertens

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Phil Hodgson can see the Netherlands from the top of the 60-metre tower he has built at the Lixhe cement plant in Belgium, and if his small Australian company can continue to extract 95 per cent of the carbon dioxide in the plant's cement, the only way will be up.

"It's not bad for a bit of lab kit," says Hodgson of the tower, which houses the pilot plant his company has built in partnership with two of the world's biggest cement manufacturers.

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Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com

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