Full Title: Know Your Oil: Creating a Global Oil-Climate Index
Author(s): Deborah Gordon, Adam Brandt, Joule Bergerson, Jonathan Koomey
Publisher(s): Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Publication Date: March 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
OIL IS CHANGING. Conventional oil resources are dwindling as tight oil, oil sands, heavy oils, and others emerge. Technological advances mean that these unconventional hydrocarbon deposits in once-unreachable areas are now viable resources. Meanwhile, scientific evidence is mounting that climate change is occurring, but the climate impacts of these new oils are not well understood. The Carnegie Endowment’s Energy and Climate Program, Stanford University, and the University of Calgary have developed a first-of-its- kind Oil-Climate Index (OCI) to compare these resources.