Discover why meeting the Paris Agreement on climate change requires asset stranding in this video abstract in Environmental Research Letters (ERL) from Alexander Pfeiffer, Cameron Hepburn, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Ben Caldecott. “Our results can help companies and investors re-assess their investments in fossil-fuel power plants, and policymakers strengthen their policies to avoid further carbon lock-in,” write the researchers in ERL. ERL comes to you from Physics World parent IOP Publishing.
Video courtesy CC-BY 3.0, Alexander Pfeiffer, Cameron Hepburn, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Ben Caldecott 2018 Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement Environ. Res. Lett. 13 054019 10.1088/1748-9326/aabc5f