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

1. 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

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

3. Cumulative emissions & fossil carbon reserves
Unconventional
Past emissions,conventional reserves
Estimated fossil and land-use changereserves

4. Cumulative emissions & fossil carbon reserves
Must be sequestered or recaptured to meet 2oC goal

5. A new way of framing climate policy
B
A

6. Policy outcome is independent of consumption
High consumption
Lower consumption

7. Mandatory sequestration works
Gorgon gas project, Western Australia

8. IT’S
CUMULATIVE
CARBON,
STUPID

9. Thank you
myles.allen@ouce.ox.ac.uk

10. Thank you
myles.allen@ouce.ox.ac.uk