Only 58 per cent of oil can be extracted if we want to limit warmingHHakim/Getty Images
Energy companies and nations must leave nine-tenths of Earth’s 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°C of global warming, a target beyond which climate change’s impacts are dangerously amplified, researchers have calculated.
Their analysis of which fossil fuel reserves are effectively “unextractable” if we are to meet the Paris Agreement temperature pledge makes the situation look …

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