Not exact matches
Only 20 % of the
total reserves can be burned unabated, leaving up to 80 % of assets technically
unburnable.
Beyond 2050, the
total carbon budget is very small for a 2 °C target, which means that reserves will remain
unburnable during the second half of the century unless there is a dramatic development of CCS after 2050.
It then goes on to demonstrate, by simple arithmetic, that «only 20 % of the
total reserves can be burned unabated, leaving up to 80 % of assets technically
unburnable.»
The results suggest the Middle East holds half of
total global
unburnable oil and gas reserves, with more than 260 billion barrels of oil and nearly 50 trillion cubic metres of gas needing to remain untouched if we're to stay within budget.