Chapter 12 Weblinks

Take a look at these further reading suggestions to deepen your understanding:

• The Human Development Index, which defines standards of living
• For very useful data on energy and environment, see Our World in Data
• An article on ‘Reducing energy demand: What are the practical limits?’ by Cullen, Allwood, and Borgstein, published in Sci. Technol. 45,4, pp. 1711-1718, 2011.
• A special report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C by the IPCC
• The website of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, Glasgow, 2021
• Race to Zero, a Global campaign to encourage net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in support of the Paris Agreement
• A summary of the 2015 Paris Agreement
• The World Energy Outlook 2019 report by the International Energy Agency
• The IPPC’s Sixth Assessment Report (2021-22)
• The IPPC’s Fifth Assessment Report (2013-14)
• The International Renewable Energy Agency’s report on Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050
• Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (Version 13.0)
• Steffen et al.’s article on ‘Trajectories of the earth system in the Anthropocene’, published in PNAS 115, 33, pp. 8252-8259, 2018.
• The REN21 Renewables 2019 Global Status Report
• Affordable and clean energy, the seventh of the Sustainable Development Goals
• The UN Emissions Gap Report 2019