Temperature Increases and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources

UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources: Half the world s known gas reserves, one-third of the oil and 80 percent of the coal should remain in the ground and unused before 2050 to limit temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius, the maximum climate scientists say is advisable, according to a report from the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, according to The Japan Times. The research will heighten the debate about so-called stranded assets, the idea that the reserves of oil drillers and coal miners have little value because the fight against climate change will require them to be left in the ground and Two-thirds of the world s fossil-fuel reserves must remain unburnt to hold temperature increases below dangerous levels, according to researchers at University College London. Policy makers must realize that their instincts to completely use the fossil fuels within their countries are wholly incompatible with their commitments to the 2 degrees Celsius goal, UCL research associate and lead author Christophe McGlade said in the report, which was published recently in the scientific journal Nature. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.