Take a look at these further reading suggestions to deepen your understanding:
- Data on indicators used by the World Bank
- Information on the Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization project on the Open EI website
- Human Development Reports provided by the United Nations Development Programme
- Spencer Weart’s hypertext history of The discovery of global warming
- Very useful data on energy provided by Our World in Data
- Electricity generation data on the website of the International Energy Agency
- The Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
- Information on the levelized cost of energy
- A journal article on ‘Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica’ by Petit et al, published in Nature 399, pp. 429–436 (1999)
- A real-time global warming index
- A Dictionary of Energy Science (2017) by Nick Jelley
- Explore World energy and climate data on The Shift Dataportal
- Visit the website of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think-tank
- For a neutral overview of the global energy scene, go to the World Energy Council