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Only 58% of the oil can be extracted if we want to limit the warming HHakim / Getty Images
Energy companies and nations must leave nine-tenths of the Earth’s coal and nearly two-thirds of its known oil and gas in the ground if the world keeps temperatures below 1.5°C of global warming, a goal that goes beyond the effects of climate change. researchers calculated.
Their analysis of which fossil fuel reserves are effectively “irrecoverable” if we meet the Paris Agreement temperature commitment makes the situation seem…
