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unburnable carbon: a standalone construct

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Energy studies

the share of known fossil fuel reserves that must stay in the ground if warming is to be held to a given target such as 2 degrees.

In energy studies, unburnable carbon refers to the share of known fossil fuel reserves that must stay in the ground if warming is to be held to a given target such as 2 degrees. This meaning comes from McGlade (2015) in Nature.[1]

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References

McGlade, C., & Ekins, P. (2015). The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C. Nature, 517(7533), 187-190. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14016

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