{"id":5514,"date":"2015-02-10T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2015-02-10T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:58:49","slug":"christophe-mcglade-on-who-gets-left-with-the-unburnable-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5514","title":{"rendered":"Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/blogs\/rob-hopkins\/2015-02\/christophe-mcglade-who-gets-left-unburnable-carbon\" target=\"_blank\">Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Christophe McGlade<\/strong>\u00a0is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. \u00a0He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called\u00a0<em>\u201cThe geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2\u00b0C<\/em>\u201d, a paper whose stark call to leave the substantial majority of fossil fuels in the ground generated a lot of media coverage in recent weeks (see for example\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/jan\/07\/much-worlds-fossil-fuel-reserve-must-stay-buried-prevent-climate-change-study-says\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-scientists-beg-governments-to-leave-buried-fossil-fuel-reserves-in-the-ground-9963405.html\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 \u00a0I started by asking him to give an overview of the paper and of its key findings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe paper is looking at the optimal use of fossil fuels if we want to have a good chance of staying below the agreed 2\u00b0C threshold. Within that, it breaks down the amount of oil, gas and coal reserves that are used and aren\u2019t used at a regional level, so it points out or suggests the countries that would have to sacrifice a large proportion of their fossil fuel reserves if we want to have a good chance of 2\u00b0. \u00a0The headline findings on a global level are that around 80% of coal reserves, 50% of gas and one third of oil reserves need to remain unburnt if we are to have this chance of 2\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox initColorbox-processed cboxElement\" title=\"How the Guardian graphically summarised the findings of Ekins and McGlade's paper. \" href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/sites\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/files\/uploaded\/u4740\/carbon.jpg\"><span class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" title=\"How the Guardian graphically summarised the findings of Ekins and McGlade's paper. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/sites\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/files\/resize\/uploaded\/u4740\/carbon-650x377.jpg\" alt=\"How the Guardian graphically summarised the findings of Ekins and McGlade's paper. \" width=\"650\" height=\"377\" align=\"\" \/><span class=\"image-caption\">How the Guardian graphically summarised the findings of Ekins and McGlade&#8217;s paper.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How has the paper been received since it came out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon Christophe McGlade\u00a0is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. \u00a0He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called\u00a0\u201cThe geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2\u00b0C\u201d, a paper whose stark call to leave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[112,113,141,147,328,349,369,588],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gas","tag-global-warming","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}