TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Prabowo’s carbon capture and storage campaign is dominated by business interests, rather than climate crisis mitigation.
THE administration of Prabowo Subianto is busy promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as a way of mitigating climate change. But is this really to prevent a 2-degree-Celsius rise in global temperatures, or simply an excuse to maintain the dominance of industries based on fossil fuels?
CCS works by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industry or power plants before they are released into the atmosphere, then storing them in underground geological formations. The government claims that this technology has been…