JP’s w4 slides [pdf] - Science
JP’s w5 slides [pdf] - Policy and Business
Additional reading and resources
1. The science of climate change
Economist (2010a), The science of climate change, The Economist, Mar 18th
Brahic, C (2007), Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: unscientific?, New Scientist Blog, Oct 12th
Economist (2011c), The heat is on, The Economist, Oct 22nd
NASA (2011), Global climate change, nasa.gov
Karl, T (2011), State of the climate in 2010 and new climate 30-year normals – Capitol Hill briefing [pdf], NOAA, July 12th
Economist (2011a), Beating a retreat, The Economist, Sept 24th
Black, R (2011b), Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study, BBC News online, Oct 21st
Sample, I (2011), Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics’ concerns, The Guardian, Oct 20th
Rogers, S and Evans, L (2011), World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest, Guardian DataBlog, Jan 31st
Economist (2011b), The cost of trade, The Economist, April 26th
Black, R (2011a), What price simplicity?, BBC News online, Oct 17th
Davis, SJ et al (2011), The supply chain of CO2 emissions, PNAS, Oct 17th
IEA (2010), World Energy Outlook 2010 – key graphs [pdf], International Energy Agency [Note: Outlook 2011 to be published Nov 9th]
Economist (2010b), Facing the consequences, The Economist, Nov 25th
Muller, Nicholas Z., Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus (2011), Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy, American Economic Review, 101(5): 1649–75
skepticalscience (2011), True Cost of Coal Power – Muller, Mendelsohn, and Nordhaus, sketpticalscience.com, Oct 7th
Economist (2011d), A tale of three islands, The Economist, Oct 22nd
Harvey, F (2011), Climate change could trap hundreds of millions in disaster areas, report claims, The Guardian, Oct 20th
Goldenburg, S (2011), Starbucks concerned world coffee supply is threatened by climate change, The Guardian, Oct 13th
2. Policy reading
IPCC (2011a) – IPCC website
OneWorld (2011), Climate change and poverty briefing, oneworld.net, August
UNFCC (2011), Kyoto protocol, unfcc.int
Brookes, T and Nuthall, T (2009), What did the Copenhagen climate summit achieve?, BBC News online, Dec 21st
DECC (2010), CANCUN, COPENHAGEN, KYOTO AND RIO, Dept. for Energy and Climate Change
Goldenberg, S (2010), Cancún agreement rescues UN credibility but falls short of saving planet, The Guardian, Dec 12th
Vidal, J (2009), Copenhagen loopholes could mean rise in emissions, report warns, The Guardian, Dec 15th
Vidal, J (2010), Does the Cancún agreement show climate leadership?, The Guardian, Dec 13th
Stern, N (2006), Stern Review: The economics of climate change, HM Treasury
BBC (2006), At-a-glance: The Stern Review, BBC News Online, Oct 30th
Adam, D (2009), Global warming ‘will be worse than expected’ warns Stern, The Guardian, Mar 12th
Krugman, P (2010), Building a green economy, New York Times Magazine, April 7th
World Resources Institute (2011), World Resources Report: Decision-making in a changing climate, WRI with UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, Oct 18th
IPCC (2011b), Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and climate change mitigation (SSEREN), IPCC, May
Vaughn, A and Harvey, F (2011), Solar subsidies to be cut by more than half, The Guardian, Oct 28th
3. Business reading
Porter, M and Kramer, M (2011), Creating Shared Value, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb
Worthington, I (2009), Does it pay firms to be green?, Professorial inaugural lecture, in Leicester Business School Research Briefing 2009/10, De Montfort University, pp13-16
Lash, J and Wellington, F (2007), Competitive advantage on a warming planet, Harvard Business Review, March pp94-102 [EBSCO]
MIT / BCG (2011), Sustainability: The ‘Embracers’ Seize Advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter
Lubin, D and Esty, D (2010), The sustainability imperative, Harvard Business Review, May pp42-50 [EBSCO]
Nidumolu, R et al (2009), Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation, Harvard Business Review, Sept. pp 56-64 [EBSCO]
Unruh, G and Ettenson, R (2010), Growing green, Harvard Businesss Review, June pp94-100 [EBSCO]
