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Severe Climate Risk Threatens 40% of World Fossil Reserves

January 3, 2022
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Nearly half of the world’s fossil fuel reserves are vulnerable to extreme weather brought on by climate change, according to an assessment published last month by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

The threat to 40% of global oil and gas supply makes the cost of climate inaction “genuinely existential”, the report stated.

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The analysis “says flooding, high temperatures, and rising sea levels are putting more than 600 billion barrels equivalent of recoverable oil and gas at risk, with reserves from the Middle East and North Africa—in particular Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq—at the greatest risk,” Offshore Technology reports. “The reliance of these nations on oil for economic development coupled with their exposure to heat stress and water shortages puts them in a precarious position, with Maplecroft labelling the vulnerability to extreme weather as the ‘Achilles’ heel’ in their energy strategies.”

The research note shows 10.5% of the world’s commercially recoverable reserves at extreme risk based on the company’s Climate Change Exposure Indices, while another 29.5% show up in high-risk regions, industry newsletter Rigzone writes.

Offshore Technology cites a record 55 Gulf of Mexico oil spills triggered by Hurricane Ida last summer as an example of the risk. Rigzone says Ida shut down nearly all the oil production in the Gulf, while listing the deadly deep freeze in Texas last February and melting permafrost in Russia as additional examples of the climate impacts confronting the industry.

“These types of events are going to become more frequent and more extreme, creating even greater shocks within the industry,” said Verisk Maplecroft environmental analyst Rory Clisby. “Identifying and disclosing these risks in line with the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations is now a strategic necessity for [fossil] energy companies if they are to mitigate these threats and offset investor concerns over their transition to a low-carbon future.”



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  1. scott says:
    1 year ago

    so the cause of climate catastrophe (fossil fuel capitalism) is now being assaulted by climate catastrophe. If climate change shuts down further use of fossil fuels is that good news or bad news?

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    • Mitchell Beer says:
      1 year ago

      I think the only accurate answer to that is…’yes’?

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  2. Charles H Jefferson says:
    1 year ago

    It does look more likely by the evidence of Biosphere breakdown and material resource depletion, that existential growth of human activity is not the answer to the damage that existential growth of human activity does! Still a little time to back off to a stress level that Nature might sustain. We are after all on a finite planet, well insulated by space from gaining any more resources . We can create credit with the ease of a printer, but not tangables, though we keep trying. Changing our object to “survival of our species” might help put of extinction, Natures likely goal for species that don’t play by IT’s rules. Seems to me!

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