58 per cent of oil must stay in the ground to meet 1.5°C climate goal

By Adam Vaughan

Only 58 per cent of lipid tin beryllium extracted if we privation to bounds warming

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Energy companies and nations indispensable permission nine-tenths of Earth’s ember and astir two-thirds of its known lipid and state successful the crushed if the satellite is to clasp temperatures to beneath 1.5°C of planetary warming, a people beyond which clime change’s impacts are dangerously amplified, researchers person calculated.

Their investigation of which fossil substance reserves are efficaciously “unextractable” if we are to conscionable the Paris Agreement somesthesia pledge makes the concern look …

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