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https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability/the-energy-future/climatechange.html
More information on Carbon Budgets can be found in Appendix 3
Slide 4 : When will we pass the Carbon Budget?
Based on current emissions pathways, illustrated here by the IPCC projections, the
carbon budget to 2 degrees will be broken around 2040 and 3 degrees around 2054.
This might change if emissions can decline rapidly over the next decade.
More information on when the carbon budget is broken can be found here.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-much-carbon-budget-is-left-to-limitglobal-warming-to-1-5c
Slide 5:
The Carbon Bubble Continues to Inflate
Despite the Paris Agreement and Governor Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of
England’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizon’ speech, the fossil fuel industry is not diverting
from business as usual. There is an overhang in all fossil fuels, with coal reserves
life exceeding the remaining “well-below 2°C” budget life by a factor of 7.
This data is based on a 50% probability of avoiding 2 degrees, rather than a 66%
probability.
In addition, this data represents ‘proven’ reserves and does not include the far greater
‘resources’ which is under development by the fossil fuel majors.
- Carney’s
speech
can
be
found
here
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2015/breaking-the-tragedy-ofthe-horizon-climate-change-and-financial-stability)
- Reserves, production and emissions data taken from BP’s Statistical
Review of World Energy 2018.
- ‘Life’ of reserves is defined by total annual proven reserves divided by
annual production rates. Carbon budget years remaining is calculated as
remaining carbon budget divided by annual emissions.
- Carbon budget data is for energy sector emissions only and was taken from
the 2°C Scenario and Beyond 2 °C Scenario in the IEA’s Energy
Technology Perspectives 2017.
- Both scenarios provide a 2015-2100 carbon budget consistent with 50%
chance of success. Carbon budget data for 2011-2014 was derived by
adding annual energy sector emissions to the 2015 baseline.