Climate reading list

These are the climate readings that have been most influential as we’ve started Watershed. Please send us recommendations or feedback as you look through.

Illustration of factories creating dark clouds

The problem statement

Background on climate fundamentals
- IPCC 1.5 report: Inspirational message that the current trajectory is disastrous but it's not too late to redirect to a good outcome.
- Latest emissions gap report
- Berkeley Earth: rigorous verification of core climate science.
- Climate change after pandemic
Visualizations
- Our World in Data on where emissions come from by country & by sector
- A best-of compilation from the wonderful work of Robert Rohde
- Earth’s carbon cycle
- A year of atmospheric CO₂
On feedbacks and tipping points
- Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
- Tipping elements in the Earth’s climate system

Human cost

Cost to the natural world

Solution paths

Clean energy

The big good news: Clean energy generation is now the least expensive in many geographies. Only one piece of the puzzle but a very, very important piece.