Societal choices affect carbon dioxide budgets

Published in ERW, 23 Sep 2015

An international group of scientists has shown that the energy choices we make as a society – such as whether or not we choose to invest in low carbon technologies like nuclear energy, bioenergy and carbon capture – affect the amount of carbon dioxide we can release into the atmosphere before triggering dangerous climate change.

Joeri Rogelj of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, and colleagues have found that, generally, the shunning of any technologies that attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, such as carbon capture, could actually boost carbon budgets by as much as 10% until 2100. […]

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