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Most fossil-fuel reserves must remain untapped to hit 1.5 °C warming goal

Modelling suggests that many planned coal, oil and gas extraction projects will not be viable if the world hopes to achieve climate targets.
  1. Bianca Nogrady

    1. Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist based in Sydney, Australia.

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Nearly 90% of economically viable global coal reserves must be left in the ground to have even a 50% chance of hitting internationally agreed climate-change goals, according to an updated model of limits to fossil-fuel extraction, published today in Nature1.

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Nature 597, 316-317 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02444-3

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  1. Welsby, D., Price, J., Pye, S. & Ekins, P. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03821-8 (2021).

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