Climate action commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has warned that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not a panacea for halting global temperature rise, but critics have voiced concerns about the extent to which EU leaders counting on a technological fix “unproven” at anything like the scale outlined in a new action plan. “There is no alternative to driving down emissions, and you cannot magically…CCS yourself out of the problem,” Hoekstra told reporters on Tuesday (6 February) as he and other EU officials pre-sented a new climate policy package in Strasbourg. “Having said that…we cannot afford to le…