Here are some of the most influential and explanatory climate readings that we’ve sourced to get you started on your climate change and Net Zero journey. Please send us recommendations or feedback as you work your way through the list.
What is the problem?
- Background on climate fundamentals
- IPCC 1.5 report: There is hope but we need to act now
- Latest emissions gap report
- Berkeley Earth: rigorous verification of core climate science
- Climate change after pandemic
- Visualizations
- Our World in Data on where emissions come from by country & by sector
- A best-of compilation from the wonderful work of Robert Rohde
- Earth’s carbon cycle
- A year of atmospheric CO2
- Tipping points
Human cost
- The social cost of carbon
- WHO on climate change
- The economics of climate change
- World bank on climate change
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Cost to the natural world
What are the solutions?
Clean energy
Clean energy generation is now the least expensive in many geographies. it is only one piece of the puzzle but a very, very important piece.
- Core data
- Commentary on how this happened and how to replicate the success
- Case study of how this happened in the UK
- Video lecture on state of US transition
- Demand-matched clean power: How to move to 100% clean electricity given the diurnal and seasonal variation of solar and wind
Where do emissions come from?
Scenario modeling
If you want to read one piece, Nan Ransohoff’s mental model for climate summarizes how we think about combatting climate change.
- Project Drawdown: Table of Solutions (also an excellent book)
- Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy
- Bill Gates: How to Avoid Climate Disaster
- Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now (also a book by John Doerr)
- Interactives
How does carbon removal work?
Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer explanation in detail
