Peak Fossil Fuel Won’t Stop Climate Change – but It Could Help - by Gary Ellem

Fossil fuels are ultimately a finite resource – the definition of non-renewable energy.  Burning of these fuels – coal, oil and gas – is the main driver of climate change.  So could the peak of fossil fuels help mitigate warming?

The short answer is maybe … but perhaps not how you might think.

In a paper published this month in the journal Fuel, my colleagues and I suggest that limits to fossil fuel availability might take climate Armageddon off the table, although we will still need to keep some fossil fuels in the ground for the best chance of keeping warming below 2C.

But more importantly, the peak of Chinese coal use is changing the face of global alternative energy industry development, and is soon likely to impact on international positioning for a low-emissions future.

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