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Useful Resources

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Climate Change

Off The Charts blog post, what needs to happen urgently https://lizkeogh.com/2019/07/02/off-the-charts/

Did the Pandemic impact climate change? https://ideas.ted.com/pandemic-and-climate-change-climate-science/

NASA confirms measuremenst of CO2 and other impacts on Climate warming https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091585

Biodiversity Loss https://eand.co/the-economics-of-our-civilization-point-to-collapse-1935097739f9

Carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been at any point in the last 3.6 million years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-highest-level-million-years/

How solar became the cheapest energy https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/25/insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world

Uninhabitable earth – 2017 long form piece https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

UK Climate Change policy dashboard, shows progress or lack of it https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/sustainability/climate-policy-dashboard

Schroders Climate Change dashboard https://www.schroders.com/en/lu/professional-investor/featured/climate-change-dashboard/

Climate.gov global climate change dashboard https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/about-global-climate-dashboard

IMF Climate change dashboard https://climatedata.imf.org/


Air Pollution

Air pollution kills twice as many as first thought

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/02/25/fossil-fuels-may-be-responsible-for-twice-as-many-deaths-as-first-thought

Plastics Pollution

Reproductive health impacts https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/28/shanna-swan-fertility-reproduction-count-down

I’m an Environmental Scientist and I Don’t Care If You Recycle by Ono Mergen

20 firms produce over half of plastic (and teh banks that fund them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/18/twenty-firms-produce-55-of-worlds-plastic-waste-report-reveals