The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C

By C. Mcglade, Paul Ekins. Nature, 2015

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Climate Risk and Capital Structure (2019, positive): “6 On the benefits of bank lending relationships, see Rajan (1992), Petersen and Rajan (1994), and Agarwal and Hauswald (2010).”
Divergent ESG Ratings (2020, background): “According to McGlade and Ekins (2015), about a third of worldwide oil reserves, a half of gas reserves, and over three-quarters of coal reserves would remain unused, as abandoned “stranded assets.””
Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions (2018, background): “By some calculations between 60 and 80% of coal, oil and gas reserves of publicly listed companies are ‘un-burnable’ if the world is to have a chance of not exceeding global warming of 2 C (McGlade & Ekins, 2015).”
Macroeconomic modelling under energy constraints: Global low carbon transition scenarios (2020, background): “…in low-carbon transitions, plans and international agreements do not usually take into consideration the aforementioned biophysical limits; something which could challenge their feasibility (McGlade and Ekins, 2015; Moriarty and Honnery, 2016; Spash, 2016; Nieto, Carpintero and Miguel, 2018).”
Role of bioenergy, biorefinery and bioeconomy in sustainable development: Strategic pathways for Malaysia (2018, neutral): “Hence, biomass utilization for bioenergy especially for peak demands is an obvious choice to mitigate GWP and limit the temperature rise to below 2 °C in this century [29,30].”
The 1.5°C target and coal sector transition: at the limits of societal feasibility (2018, background): “By extension, 1.5°C pathways also imply the stranding of upstream coal reserves/resources and capital beyond that required for 2°C, where 80% of coal reserves cannot be burned (McGlade & Ekins, 2015).”