When we talk about the fight against global warming, the models generally estimate the greenhouse gas emissions not to be exceeded to avoid as much as possible that the climate does not get carried away.
In an article published in the journal
Nature on
Wednesday, British researchers take the problem the other way, assessing what the world has to give up: they are indeed determining the share of known fossil resources that should not be mined. in order to limit warming to +1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, i.e. the objective set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.
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Researchers at University College London estimate that nearly 60% of current oil and gas reserves and 90% of coal are expected to remain underground by 2050. The United States, Russia and China notably have gigantic reserves of coal, the fossil fuel that emits the most carbon dioxide.
The authors of the study consider as well as at the global level,
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