See also ACCR, 'Financed Emissions: "
Unburnable Carbon" Risk and the Major Australian Banks, ACCR, 2014' (Update Note, 2014).
The agreement on international climate policy reached at the Paris COP21 in November 2015 had initially suggested that new hydrocarbon producers would increasingly face the risks of '
unburnable carbon' and 'stranded assets'.
Iron is nearly the minimum-energy atomic nucleus: it's
unburnable, the "ash" at the end of the line for releasing energy by fusion.
Hilaire, "
Unburnable fossil-fuel reserves," Nature, vol.
The next chapter turns to Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting and Marie-Elena John's
Unburnable with their structural reliance on story telling.
The USCG later determined the Fennica struck an uncharted shoal in the area, but the PR regulatory spin was immense: 'The damage to the Fennica due to traveling through shallow water is yet another example of Shell's reckless attitude in its pursuit of
unburnable Arctic oil," reported one commentator.
(135.) See McKibben, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, supra note 48;CARBON TRACKER INITIATIVE,
UNBURNABLE CARBON 2013: WASTED CAPITAL AND STRANDED ASSETS 4 (2013), http://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unburnable-Carbon-2-Web-Version.pdf; IPCC, CLIMATE CHANGE 2013 THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE BASIS WORKING GROUP I CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIFTH ASSESSMENT REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS (2013); see also Hayes, supra note 25, at 13.
Without CCS, McGlade and Ekins (2015) estimate that if global warming is to be kept below 2[degrees]C until 2050 that approximately 35% of oil reserves, 52% of gas reserves and 88% of coal reserves are
unburnable (see Table 1).