Little room for new fossil fuel development if global temperatures are to stay below 1.5°C

David L. McCollum, Alaa Al Khourdajie

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Abstract

A new paper in Nature by Welsby et al. makes clear that pursuing efforts to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels—the most frequently stated goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement—implies the vast majority of coal, crude oil, and natural gas must remain underground and undeveloped.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2542-2545
Number of pages4
JournalJoule
Volume5
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 20 2021

Funding

DM was supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy. AAK was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom. Grant/Award Number: EP/P022820/1. The authors declare no competing interests. The authors are members of the Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Department of Energy or the U.S. Government. DM was supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory , managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy. AAK was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council , United Kingdom. Grant/Award Number: EP/P022820/1 .

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