The Role of Clean Energy

This chapter will focus on the clean energy revolution and the technologies most widely discussed for a transition to a low carbon economy. It will explore the scale of the energy transition needed to explain why some energy technologies are considered likely to be major...

Climate Politics and Policies

This chapter will explain the most commonly used or discussed climate policies around the world. It will also explore some of the issues involving climate politics. What climate policies are governments around the world using to fight climate change? The major policies used by...

Avoiding the Worst Impacts

This chapter will examine the 2°C warming target. It will explain why the major governments and scientific associations have embraced it as the limit for minimizing/avoiding dangerous climate change. It will take a big-picture perspective on how to avoid the worst impacts—including discussions...

Projected Climate Impacts

This chapter will discuss what climate science projects will happen this century. The focus will be on the so-called business-as-usual case, which assumes no significant global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions trends in the foreseeable future. The primary source will be the latest scientific...

Climate Change and You

This chapter will explore some of the more personal questions that climate change raises for individuals and their families. How will climate change impact you and your family in the coming decades? The transition to a low-carbon economy is inevitable this century, and indeed...

Climate Science Basics

This chapter focuses on climate science as it applies to what science can tell us about the changes we have observed to date and what caused them. The goal is to answer the key questions that people ask about the science.

Extreme Weather and Climate Change

Extreme weather is the earliest manifestation of climate change that most people will be exposed to. This chapter will focus on what science tells us about the remarkable spate of once-in-a-century (and rarer) extreme weather events we have observed in the last few years. It...