How to Decarbonize the World - Course Sources

Day 1 - Intro and the Role of Fossil Fuels

Day 2 & 3 - Electricity Generation

CarbonBrief - Carbon Dioxide emissions peak
Ember Climate - Global Electricity Review 2024
Financial Times - How to pay for the green transtion
Financial Times - Green finance is key to resolving climate change
IEA - CO2 Emissions in 2022
IEA - Final consumption world energy statistics 2021
IEA - GHG emissions from energy data explorer
World Economic Forum - IEA Renewables 2025 Projection
IEA - Change in emissions by fuel by region
Ember Climate - Global electricity review 2023
Our World in Data - Renewables Growth
Guardian - UK use of fossil fuels lowest since 1957
IRENA - Renewable Power Report
IEA - 2024 Electricty Report
Visualizing Energy - history of US Electrification
Visualizing Energy - World Electricity Generation since 1900
JSTOR - Electricity Adoption in early 20th Century America
IRENA - Renewable Power generation Costs 2022
Statista - Renewables Surpass Coal in US Electricity generation
Who leads the world in Renewables?
Enerdata - Global Energy Transition Statistics
Science Direct - what is different about net zero energy systems
Princeton Net Zero America Report
Euronews - Renewables growth in 2023
IEA - Expansion of Renewables
Statista - European Renewables Grid Bottlenecks
Statista - Germany leads Europe in solar
Statista - renewable energy by region
Our World in Data - Electricity Mix
IEA -Electricity 2024
EIA - US Daily Energy Mix
EIA - US Short-term Energy Outlook
IEA - Wind Generation
Global Wind Atlas
RePowerEU - EU initiative
US IRA Act
EIA - Wind Power in the US
Statista - Offshore Wind Farms
Ember Climate - Wind Power
ITA - Energy Resource guide
Caltech Science Exchange - Renewables on the grid
NY Times - Grid Batteries in California
CNBC - why US grid isn't 100% renewables yet
IEA - Grids are the weak link
Rewiring America - Pace of Progress Report
Rewiring America - Electrification on the grid
Clean Technica - SMRs
Statista - Hydro Power
Statista - Droughts impact on hydro
Our World in Data - land use by energy source
DNV - Energy Demand in 2050
WEF - Renewables in Africa
IRENA - Renewables Country Leaderboard
EEA - Europe Share of Energy fron renewables
CarbonBrief - UK electricity shift from fossil fuels 

Day 4 - Transport

Science Direct - Transport GHG emissions
Our World in Data - Transport
European Parliament - emissions from cars
Visual Capitalist - comparing emissions from transport
Our World in Data - GHG emissions by sector
WEF - why transport is hard to decarbonize
IEA - Transport review
IEA - tracking clean energy in 2023
Green Match - electric vehicles
Statista - worlds largest EV markets video
PwC - electric car market review 2023
RMI - EV revolution in 5 charts
BCG - EV car sales
Reuters - China EV market
HBR - China's EV market
IOP Science - vehicle fleet turnover
How China built the world's largest high speed rail network
China's high speed rail growth
IEA - Rail review
Economist - How trains could displace planes in Europe
France bans short-haul flights
Guardian - France flight ban
Japanese High Speed Rail Network
Map of Japanese High Sped Rail
US cutting High Speed Rail from IRA
GreenBiz - US High Speed Rail
UK HS2 Cancelled
Chronotrains
Europe by Rail
Times - Best Rail Journeys
Guardian - Rail Travel Itineries in Europe
High Speed Rail in the US
Hypothetical US High Speed Rail Network
IEA - International shipping
Shipping is hard to decarbonize
UNCTAD - decarbonizing shipping
UNCTAD - Maritime Transport Review
UNCTAD - Shipping Policy Brief
Shipping Industry's climate ambitions
IMO GHG Study
Nature - Aviation Emissions
Science Direct - ICE vs EV efficiency
Deloitte - decarbonizing road freight
Nature - decarbonizing road freight
WEF - Road freight Zero
McKinsey - decarbonizing aviation
McKinsey - making net zero possible in aviation
UK Gov - decarbonizing Road Freight 

Day 5 - Financed Emissions

Day 6 & 7 - Food & Agriculture

Our World in Data - Food Emissions
Our World in Data - Methane in Agriculture
Our World in Data - Food Carbon Budget
Civileats - Nitrous Oxide on Farms
Environmental Defense Fund - Methane
EPA - Methane
UK Gov - Agri-Climate Report 2022
Our World in Data - land used for agriculture
Nature - Future warming from food consumption
Nature - Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions
Nature - animal vs plant based food emissions
Greenpeace - majroity of European crops feed animals and cars, not people
Nature - Half of China's food system CO2 coming from production phase
Nature - changes in food consumption increase emissions
Resources for the future - Agricultural GHGs 101
CarbonBrief - food system carbon emissions
Frontiersin - agricultures climate change mitgiation role
EPA - GHG Inventory Explorer
WRI - history of carbon emissions
Wikipedia - Agriculturual carbon emissions
RFF - policies to increase mitigation of agricultural emissions
European Environment Agency - Prospects for decarbonizing agriculture
UK Gov - Agricultural GHGs
OECD - Agricultural Ministers Meeting 2022
OECD - Reforming Agricultural Practices
Farm Carbon Toolkit - policies and practices
WRI - 6 ways the US can curb climate change and grow more food
BBC - why soil is disappearing on farms
Springer - land degradation and soil erosion
New Scientist - soil degradation
UN Stats - soil
EOS Data - soil degradation
Reuters - land use trends and costs of degradation
Guardian - loss of arable land over the last 40 years
Frontiersin - Quantifying soil carbon sequestration from regenerative agricultural in crops
Climate Farmers - what is regenerative agriculture
Carbon Cycle - what is carbon farming
ICOS - carbon farming
Inherited Seeds - RegenAg
WeForum - RegenAg
Climate Champions - RegenAg
The Conversation - RegenAg won't fix our food system
SPG - carbon farming investment report
Cambridge University - emissions from fertilizers can be reduced by 80% by 2050
BMC - GHG emissions from synthetic nitrogen in China
Science Direct - regnerative grazing
Report on Regenerative Grazing
Science Direct - role of grazing lands in carbon-balance
UN - end food waste day
WRI - reducing food loss and waste
Forbes - the scale of food waste
Statista - total annual household waste by country
IFCO - Global food waste by country
World Favor - what is a sustianable food supply chain
US NCBI - plant-based diets for human and planetary health
UNEP - Food Waste Report 2024
WeForum - food waste solutions
Phys.org - plant-based diets carbon capture
BBC - eating less meat
Guardian - impact of climate friendly diets 

Day 8 - Buildings

Our World in Data - Emissions by sector
OECD - housing stock and construction
UN - Global Buildings status report
NCBI - Review of carbon reduction in construction
RICS -Energy efficiency of building stock in the EU
UN - Population report
Global Data - Average household sizes
PassivHaus Design - medium density housing projects
Statista - Average size of households US
Statista - Average size of households UK
Statista - Average size of housefolds EU
MIT - Emissions from building a new house
Britannica - cement manufacturing
Science Direct - cement and concrete
MIT - concrete
World Steel Association - Production in 2022
UK Gov - Waste report
EU - Construction and demolition waste
Net Zero Housing Toolkit
UN - Report on building materials and climate
Net Zero Carbon Guide - Retrofit or new build?
Springer - Carbon emissions from buildings using LCA
FSC - Forests and certified timber
SGS - Concrete Sustainabilty and Sourcing
Transport for London - reducing emissions on construction sites
HNIP - what is a heat network
Eurostat - Energy consumption in households
IEA - Appliances and equipment
World Population Review - House size by country
University of Michigan - Residential buildings factsheet
UK Committee on Climate Change - Household carbon footprints 1990 to 2030
Eurostat - Environmental impact of housing
IEA - Heating buildings
IEA - District heating
IEA Bioenergy - low emission wood stoves
IEA - the future of heat pumps
Pollutants from burning wood
Wood stove pollution in the developed world
Emissions of air pollutants in the UK
Energy Saving Trust - Heat Pumps
Is District Heating right for my area
UN - Actions for a healthy planet
Deloitte - sustainable consumers
Nature - Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics
Factsheet about wood
Window-glazing technologies and future prospects
Energy Saving Trust - insulating tanks and radiators
IEA - Household savings from energy efficiency
UN - World population in cities by 2050 projection
Nature - the impact of urbanisation on CO2 emissions
National Geogrpahic - threat of urbanization
CDP - Carbon Monitor Tool: cities
City carbon footprints per capita model
Researchgate - carbon consumption comparison between urban and rural
Our World in Data - how urban is the world
UN - Biodiversity article
National Park City Foundation 

Day 9 - Nature & Biodiversity

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