The findings reaffirm the yawning gap between meaningful climate action and the rhetoric of policymakers touting their commitment to the energy transition.
The vast majority of the world's known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground to have even a 50% chance of keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
A heavy hauler truck drives through the Suncor Energy Inc. Millennium mine in this aerial photograph taken above the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018.LONDON — The vast majority of the world's known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground to have some hope of preventing the worst effects of the climate emergency, according to new research.
The researchers, led by environmental and energy economist Dan Welsby at University College London, noted the "bleak" forecasts were likely to be somewhat conservative given that a greater than 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees would require more carbon to remain untapped, and because of uncertainties around the timely development of scalable negative carbon emission technologies.
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