Unburnable fossil-fuel reserves

Cumulative emissions, unburnable fossil fuel, and the optimal carbon tax

a Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3 UQ, UK b St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia c VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands d Institute for Ecological Economics, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria e WIIW Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Rahlgasse 3, 1060...

Can “stranded” fossil fuel reserves drive CCS deployment?

Recent studies have evaluated the climate change implications of burning all of the world’s proven reserves of carbon. To stay below the ambitious target of two degrees Celsius of warming above average pre-industrial temperatures, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that we would need to emit no more than 884 GtCO2 globally between 2012 and 2050, equivalent to burning approximately ...

Fossil fuel subsidies and health.

In calling for a switch of fossil fuel subsidies to funding of universal health coverage, Vinay Gupta and colleagues (June, 2015) miss two health-relevant issues: all fossil fuels are not the same and all subsidies are not the same. Liquefi ed petroleum gas (LPG) has major, direct health advantages in household cooking in countries of low and middle income, its primary use. Indeed, the Global B...

Fossil Fuel and Food Security

Fossil fuel biodegradation: laboratory studies.

Biodegradation of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of creosote by undefined bacterial cultures was shown to be accompanied by the accumulation of neutral and acidic oxidation products. Formation of a number of identified neutral products is accounted for by demonstration of anomalous actions of an arene dioxygenase on the benzylic methylene and methylene carbons of napthenoaromatic hydrocar...