Las inversiones futuras en combustibles fósiles no se presentan prometedoras

Al igual que la mayoría de los gobernadores de los bancos centrales, Mark Carney, el Gobernador del Banco de Inglaterra, elige sus palabras cuidadosamente. 
 

Por esta razón, la comunidad financiera y los responsables políticos del gobierno se sentaron y tomaron nota, a principios de este mes, cuando Carney, abordando un seminario del Banco Mundial sobre modelos de información corporativos, dijo que estaba preocupado por las inversiones en los combustibles fósiles.

Why look for shale gas if we cannot burn it?

The Carbon Bubble: Unburnable Reserves, Stranded Assets

 

We've known for some time, but latest data confirm what we knew: it no longer makes sense to continue looking for fossil fuels, because we won't even be able to use a large share of currently available reserves, if avoiding catastrophic climate change is what we want. Such a situation reduces the relevance of the Peak Oil debate and concentrates our attention on something entirely different: on the role of private energy companies, which continue to profit from reserves they should not be able to extract, and on the desperate need for governments to accept a binding agreement to drastically curtail emissions.