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What is carbon capture and storage? The technology is designed to prevent the carbon dioxide exhaust from the burning of coal and gas from entering the atmosphere and driving further climate change. It does this by either stripping the CO2 from the smokestacks of conventional power stations, or by burning the fuel in special ways to produce exhausts of pure CO2.

Carbon dioxide produced from power generation, captured and stored, could help combat climate change

Firms announce CCS plans for Peterhead power station following collapse of £1bn proposals for Longannet Two major energy companies have combined forces to bolster the case to build the UK's first carbon-capture project at Peterhead power station near Aberdeen.

The power company SSE and Shell hope to bolster the case for a carbon-capture and storage plant at Peterhead near Aberdeen

Plans for the UK's first carbon capture project at the Longannet power station in Fife have been scrapped, the energy secretary has confirmed.

The British government has dealt a body blow to hopes of mitigating global warming by capturing greenhouse gases. But is it fatal? After months of speculation, the British government has set back the development of one of the most promising weapons in the war on climate change.

Two large energy firms have agreed to work together to develop carbon-capture and storage (CCS) in Aberdeenshire - if they can get the funding.

Australia's Senate has approved a controversial law on pollution, after years of bitter political wrangling.

On the eve of climate talks that began last week, the UN's climate chief, Christiana Figueres, told the Guardian: "We are putting ourselves in a scenario where we will have to develop more powerful technologies to capture emissions out of the atmosphere."