In climate news, a new public database has found the world’s fossil fuel reserves contain enough carbon to exceed limits set by the Paris climate accord seven times over.
Paris, September 21 (RHC)-- In climate news, a new public database has found the world’s fossil fuel reserves contain enough carbon to exceed limits set by the Paris climate accord seven times over.
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels warns that burning the world’s remaining supplies of coal, oil and gas would add 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere — more than all of the emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution.