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The study presents the atlas of unburnable oil in the world, designed based on environmental and social criteria to reduce CO₂ emissions in the atmosphere, combat the effects of climate change and comply with this international treaty, signed in 2015 in Paris as part of the UN Climate Change Conference . Credit: Nature Communications
The article is led by Professor Martí Orta-Martínez, from the UB’s Faculty of Biology and the UB Biodiversity Research Institute , and co-authored by Gorka Muñoa and Guillem Rius-Taberner , Lorenzo Pellegrini and Murat Arsel, from the Erasmus University Rotterdam , and Carlos Mena, from the University of San Francisco de Quito .
“Our study reveals which oil resources should be kept underground and not commercially exploited, with special attention to those deposits that overlap with areas of high endemic richness or coincide with outstanding socio-environmental values in different regions of the planet. The results show that the exploitation of the selected resources and reserves is totally incompatible with the achievement of the Paris Agreement commitments,” says Professor Martí Orta-Martínez.
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