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Professor @UEFLawSchool @uefcceel丨Affiliated Researcher @SEIClimate丨Visiting Researcher @UUCopernicus丨Editor @RECIELjournal丨Climate change law and policy geek
Oct 8, 2021 15 tweets 17 min read
📢New article alert! What does international law say about leaving #fossilfuels in the ground to meet the #ParisAgreement #climate goals? And how could it evolve to do so? I explore these questions in a new #OpenAccess article in @ESG_Journal sciencedirect.com/science/articl…🧵 Some background: as a recent @Nature piece by @st_pye & others shows, if we want to keep below 1.5C, large parts of fossil fuel reserves (oil: 58%, gas: 59%, coal: 89%) are 'unextractable' nature.com/articles/s4158… (2/n)