Scientists Say Climate Change Accord May Rely on 'Utopia' of Unproven Technologies

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The climate agreement reached Dec. 12 in Paris leaves the door open to dependence on unproven uses of "negative emission" technologies like bio-mass energy with carbon capture and storage, but it's still a step forward for fighting climate change, scientists told Bloomberg BNA. Nearly 200 nations reached an historic climate agreement Dec. 12, after United Nations talks that exceeded their two-week deadline. The 32-page agreement calls for holding "the increase in the global average temperature to well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, and for pursuing "efforts to limit the temperature increase" to a more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).