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ENERGY

IPCC Climate resilient development chart

Decarbonisation:

Davis et al (2018) Net-zero emissions energy systems

Low energy demand:

World can limit global warming to 1.5C by ‘improving energy efficiency’, Daisy Dunne for CarbonBrief, 4 June 2018 [The linked article discusses a paywalled article: Grubler et al (2018) A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies]

National Electricity Market (NEM) Australia and Western Australia (SWIS):

NEM-Watch by Global-Roam. Live Supply & Demand for Australia’s ‘National Electricity Market’

Open Electricity – Tracker – National Electricity Market (Australia)

Open Electricity – Tracker – SWIS (Western Australia)

Open Electricity Facilities (Australia)

Open Electricity Scenario Explorer (Australia)

News and analysis - Clean energy:

RenewEconomy – clean energy news and analysis (Australian focus)

Podcasts - Clean energy:

Energy Insiders – a RenewEconomy podcast (Australian focus)

Solar Insiders – a RenewEconomy podcast (Australian focus)

The Driven – a RenewEconomy podcast on electric vehicles (Australian focus)

Volts podcast with David Roberts – a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind

CLIMATE CHANGE

IPCC Climate resilient development chart

Climate change:

Anderson & Peters (2016) The trouble with negative emissions (PDF)

Climate Levels Graph: a project of the 2 Degrees Institute

Hansen et al (2017) Young people’s burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions

World can limit global warming to 1.5C ‘without BECCS’, Simon Evans for CarbonBrief, 13 April 2018 [the linked article discusses a paywalled article: van Vuuren et al (2018) Alternative pathways to the 1.5 °C target reduce the need for negative emission technologies]

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS):

Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology, Leo Hickman in CarbonBrief, 13 April 2016

Climate change denial:

DeSmogBlog – fact-based information about global warming misinformation campaigns

Skeptical Science – popular climate change denial arguments debunked

Climate change news and analysis:

Carbon Brief – Clear on climate

RealClimate – Climate science from climate scientists

Comics:

A timeline of Earth’s average temperature, xkcd

The Existence of Trains Debate, by Barry Deutsch in Leftycartoons

Decarbonising Australia:

Australian climate change policy to 2015: a chronology, Talberg, Hui, & Loynes

Australia’s climate change policy to 2021: a chronology. Smith & McMaugh

Beyond Zero Emissions

ClimateWorks Australia

Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity (book) – Prof. Ross Garnaut

Future scenarios:

Emissions Pathways to 2100 – Climate Action Tracker

Global emissions projections to 2035 and emissions gaps to 1.5°C Paris 2015 target – Climate Action Tracker

The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond, Interactive by Carbon Brief

Global climate change reports:

IPCC (2018) Global Warming of 1.5°C – Special report

IPCC (2019) Climate Change and Land – Special report

IPCC (2019) Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate – Special report

IPCC (2021) AR6 WGI The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

IPCC (2022) AR6 WGII The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

IPCC (2022) AR6 WGIII The Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

IPCC (2023) AR6 Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report

UNEP (2025) Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off target – Continued collective inaction puts global temperature goal at risk

Hope:

Despairing about the Climate Crisis? A conversation with scientist Susanne Moser about climate communication, the benefits of functional denial, and the varied flavors of hope, Laurie Mazur in Earth Island Journal, 22 July 2019

I Want a Better Catastrophe by Andrew Boyd 2023 (click Play to listen, or click items to expand the flowchart)

It’s the End of the World as They Know It – The distinct burden of being a climate scientist (2019) David Corn for Mother Jones

Nature-based solutions:

Nature-based Solutions for Peace: Emerging Practice and Options for Policymakers (2024) UNEP

Nature-based solutions: How can they work for climate, biodiversity and people? (2022) Carbon Brief

~ The links will be curated more actively later, and will take in a wider range of perspectives. A link isn’t necessarily an endorsement of the content. ~

‘Energy’
Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash ref. 1292224 (downloaded 16th Jan. 2019) cropped.

View from International Space Station
Photograph: ISS/Nasa (downloaded 24 Aug. 2018) cropped. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/18/climate-scientist-clouds-climate-change-interview-kate-marvel