The oil and gas industry will need to scale back much faster to limit warming to 1.5oC

Gardiner, Dan, Sullivan, Rory, Dietz, Simon ORCID: 0000-0001-5002-018X and Jahn, Valentin ORCID: 0000-0001-9897-5903 (2021) The oil and gas industry will need to scale back much faster to limit warming to 1.5oC. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (20 Feb 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

If global temperature increase is to be limited to 1.5oC, CO2 emissions must reach net zero in 2050, if not sooner. Consumption of oil must begin to fall in the next few years and fall substantially thereafter – far from the gentle plateauing expected by many in the industry. Gas consumption, considered by the industry to be a “growth engine”, must [...]

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2021 14:24
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:32
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109185

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