Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world

November 9, 2021 Siddhant Goyal

Date of Publication: Sep 08, 2021

Author: Dan Welsby, James Price & Paul Ekins

Summary:

A global energy system model finds that planned fossil fuel extraction is inconsistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, because the majority of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03821-8