Panel 1. Tackling climate change and ensuring energy security - Professor Myles Allen

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Delivered at the Global CCS Institute's Global Status of CCS: 2013 event in Seoul, 10 October 2013.

Technology Economy & Finance

Cumulative carbon and its implications: the
case for mandatory sequestration
Myles Allen
School of Geography and the Environment/ECI &
Department of Physics
University of Oxford
Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship

Key conclusion of the 2013 IPCC report:
cumulative CO2 emissions control warming

Cumulative emissions & fossil carbon reserves

Unconventional
Past emissions,conventional reserves
Estimated fossil and land-use changereserves

Cumulative emissions & fossil carbon reserves

Must be sequestered or recaptured to meet 2oC goal

A new way of framing climate policy
B

A

Policy outcome is independent of consumption

High consumption

Lower consumption

Mandatory sequestration works

Gorgon gas project, Western Australia

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