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Ahead of COP27
Following COP26 last year I wanted to update a blog I wrote in 2020. In the past few weeks I have had several requests for what to read, watch and listen on the subject of climate change? One year on from Glasgow I remain optimistic due to the increased desire to better understand the science of climate change. Why it means in our lifetime and how it impacts our future. Below I have compiled a list of Articles, Books, Documentaries, Podcasts and useful Websites.
My top 3 recommendations are
📕 The Ministry for the Future– Kim Stanley Robinson
🎥 Netflix: Breaking Boundaries: The Science Of Our Planet
🎧 Radio 4: How they made us doubt everything
The full list is here
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👓Articles on Climate Change
- Al Jazeera: World failing on funding for climate adaptation
- Al Jazeera: Pakistan flood losses estimated at $40bn: Ex-finance minister
- AIQ – The Climate Edition – Aviva Investors
- BBC: Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help
- BBC: What if polluters footed the climate bill?
- BBC: COP27: What have global leaders done on climate change in 2022?
- Bloomberg: Huge Chinese Desert Projects Will Power Next Wave of Wind, Solar –
- Bloomberg Green: COP27: Global Climate Summit 2022
- Bloomberg Data Dash: Climate Change Facts: Where Progress Is and Isn’t Being Made
- Bloomberg Data Dash: How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere
- Bloomberg Data Dash: How Will Greenhouse Gas Affect Us? Measuring Carbon, Methane Emissions
- Bloomberg Data Dash: Global Warming Temperature Chart: How the World’s Average Temperature Has Risen Since 1880
- Bloomberg Data Dash: Is Arctic Ice Melting? Measuring The Impact of Climate Change
- Bloomberg Data Dash: How Deforestation Affects Climate Change
- CarbonBrief: Clear on Climate Science
- CarbonBrief: Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
- Carbon Brief: Do COP26 promises keep global warming below 2C?
- Carbon Brief: UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target
- ClimateHome: China plans huge wind and solar power rollout in Gobi desert
- GreenBiz: Can a ‘carbon coin’ save the world? It may be put to the test
- Guardian: Brazil, Indonesia and DRC in talks to form ‘Opec of rainforests’
- Guardian: Why the Guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast
- Guardian: ‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
- Guardian: World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
- Guardian: I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
- Guardian: World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
- Nature: Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators
- New Scientist: The Essential Guide #8: Climate Change
- The Economist: The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target
- NYT: The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof
- NYT: A Climate Change Guide for Kids – Bad Future, Better Future
- NYT: It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.
- SpringerLink: Hypothesis for a Risk Cost of Carbon: Revising the Externalities and Ethics of Climate Change
- The Times: Why big business “greenwashing” attempts are actually hurting the environment
- World Economic Forum (WEF): What is COP27, why it matters and 5 key areas for action
- WEF: Here’s what we can really do about climate change, according to a new study
- WEF: The Global Risks Report 2022
- WEF: A Decade Left
- WEF: Want to act now on climate change? Here’s how.
- WEF: Banks can achieve net-zero pledge by 2050. Here’s how
- WIRED: The WIRED Guide to Climate Change
- WIRED: Bill Gates has a plan to save the world. Will the world listen?
- Bill Gates has a plan to save the world. Will the world listen? | WIRED UK
- WIRED: What is climate change?
- WIRED: Scientist’s Map Explains Climate Change
- WIRED: A Clean Industrial Revolution Is the Only Way to Hit Net Zero
- World Resources Institute (WRI): 4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Countries and Sectors
- WRI: Policies Underestimate Forests’ Full Effect on the Climate
📚Books
- Against our nature – A Hitchhikers guide to the climate crisis by James Whiteman, Steve Waygood, Martin Cassidy
- EARTHSHOT: HOW TO SAVE OUR PLANET by Colin Butfield and Jonnie Hughes
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: THE SOLUTIONS WE HAVE AND THE BREAKTHROUGHS WE NEED By BILL GATES
- Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change by Ronald Cohen
- Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis– introduced by Emma Thompson
- The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
- Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
🎮 Computer Games
- NASA Climate Kids
- National Science Foundation and Department of Education: Eco
- Minecraft Education Edition: Climate & Sustainability Kit
- Zenergi: Climate Crisis – The Game
📺Documentaries & Movies
- BBC: Climate Change: The Facts
- BBC iPlayer: Frozen Planet II – Series 1: 6. Our Frozen Planet
- BBC iPlayer: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
- BBC iPlayer: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
- IMDB: An Inconvenient Truth (full movie to buy or rent)
- IMDB: Ice on Fire (full movie)
- National Geographic: Before the Flood (full movie)
- National Geographic: Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
- Netflix: Chasing Coral
- Netflix: Chasing Ice
- Netflix: Breaking Boundaries: The Science Of Our Planet
- Netflix: Don’t Look Up
- “Net-Zero Now”
- TED: New thinking on the climate crisis | Al Gore
- The Economist: Climate change technology: is shading the earth too risky?
- The Economist: Climate change: can money stop deforestation
- The Sustainability Imperative by Tom Raftery
- WWF: Can’t negotiate the melting point of ice
- WWF: Our Planet: Too Big To Fail
🗺 Infographics by information is beautiful by David McCandless
- How to Get the World to Netzero by 2050
- How to Reduce the World’s Carbon Footprint by 2050
- What Can We Do Personally to Reduce Emissions?
🏫 Museums (UK)
- Natural History Museum: Climate Change
- Natural History Museum: Generation Hope: Act for the Planet (opens 2023)
- Science Museum: Our Future Planet
- Science Museum: Atmosphere
- Science Museum: Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery (opens 2023)
🎼 Music
- ‘Symbiosis’ by Greg Lawson and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
🎧 Podcasts
- Climate 21 with Tom Raftery
- FT Techtonic podcast: Will climate tech save the planet?
- Radio 4: How they made us doubt everything
- Spotify: Outrage! + optimism
- Spotify: Pricing Nature
- Spotify: Reith lectures From climate crisis to prosperity
- Spotify: Ted Climate
- The Economist: To a Lesser Degree — a climate podcast
💻 Websites
- Bank of England
- BankTrack – Bank Net Zero commitments
- BBC – Climate Change
- BCG: Thought Leadership on Climate Change & Sustainability
- Climate Action Tracker
- Climate Science
- Extreme Ice Survey – A program of Earth Vision Institute
- Financial Times: Climate Capital
- Guardian: Climate Crisis
- GOV.UK: 2050 Pathways
- McKinsey & Company: Climate Change
- MSCI: The MSCI Net-Zero Tracker (PDF)
- Nature: Climate change and the Arctic
- Strategic Intelligence: Climate Change
- NASA: Climate Time Machine – shows how some of Earth’s key climate indicators are changing over time.
- NASA: Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (resources)
- NOAA Climate
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Net-Zero Knowledge Hub
- Our World in Data: CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- The Economist – Climate Change
- The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
- The New York Times (NYT): Climate and Environment
- UNEP: Adaptation Gap Report 2022 (PDF)
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: The Very Simple Climate Model
- World Economic Forum (WEF) articles and topics : Climate Change
- WEF (hub): Climate Change
- WIRED: The WIRED Guide to Climate Change
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