China ahead in carbon capture race with 73% of patents, while UK filed just 1%
27 Mar 2023
Chinese scientists filed 73 per cent of all carbon capture and storage (CCS) patents last year, new research shows.
Of the 411 CCS patent applications filed last year, 298 were filed in China, while American researchers filed the second most patents, at 42.
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