Climate Change
The industrial revolution was the starting point of an unstoppable increase in carbon emissions, which inevitably leads to global warming. Many scientists believe that a 2°C (3.6°F) rise in global temperature would lead to a major environmental catastrophe. Learn about the climate crisis, current developments in climate research and the emerging technologies that could save the world.
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Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
William D Nordhaus
Yale UP, 2015
Paths to a low-carbon economy will create rivalries, winners and losers, warn Andreas Goldthau, Kirsten Westphal and colleagues.
Kirsten Westphal et al.
Nature, 2019
Stalling the fastest flows of ice into the oceans would buy us a few centuries to deal with climate change and protect coasts, argue John C. Moore and colleagues.
John C. Moore et al.
Nature, 2018
Multi-agency report highlights increasing signs and impacts of climate change in atmosphere, land and oceans
World Meteorological Organization
WMO, 2020
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Green bonds offer lessons for sustainable finance
Afsaneh Beschloss and Mina Mashayekhi
Finance & Development Magazine, 2019
Robert McSweeney
Carbon Brief, 2020
Book
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell
Little, Brown US, 2017
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50 years after the first Earth Day
Henry Fountain et al.
The New York Times, 2020
Central banks and financial regulators are starting to factor in climate change
Pierpaolo Grippa et al.
Finance & Development Magazine, 2019
Book
How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles
Columbia UP, 2016
