Only 58 per cent of oil can be extracted if we want to limit warming HHakim/Getty Images
Energy companies and nations must leave nine-tenths of Earth鈥檚 coal and almost two-thirds of its known oil and gas in the ground if the world is to hold temperatures to below 1.5掳C of global warming, a target beyond which climate change鈥檚 impacts are dangerously amplified, researchers have calculated.
Their analysis of which fossil fuel reserves are effectively 鈥渦nextractable鈥 if we are to meet the Paris Agreement temperature pledge makes the situation look dire for petrostates. Globally, oil and gas…
