History of climate change
Corfee-Morlot, J., et al. Climate science in the public sphere, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, 365/1860 (2007): 2741–76.
Leggett, J.K. The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics on the Front Lines of Climate and Clean Energy (Crux Publishing, 2018).
Lewis, S.L. and M.A. Maslin The Human Planet: How Humans Caused the Anthropocene (Penguin and Yale University Press, 2018).
Mann, M. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (PublicAffairs, 2021).
Oreskes, N. and M. Conway Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Ruddiman, W.F. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton Science Library, 2016)
Weart, S.R. The Discovery of Global Warming, New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Science
Archer, D. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, 2nd edn (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
Dessler, A.E. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, 3rd edn (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Emanuel, K. What We Know about Climate Change, updated edn (The MIT Press, 2018).
Houghton, J.T. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 5th edn (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
IPCC, Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021).
Lenton, T. Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016).
Maslin, M.A. and S. Randalls (eds) Routledge Major Work Collection: Future Climate Change: Critical Concepts in the Environment (4 volumes containing reproductions of eighty-five of the most important papers published on climate change) (Routledge, 2012).
Romm, J. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2018).
Impacts
Costello, A., et al. Managing the health effects of climate change, The Lancet, 373 (2009): 1693–733.
Garcia R.A., et al. Multiple dimensions of climate change and their implications for biodiversity, Science, 344 (2014): 486–96.
IPCC, Climate Change 2021—Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Stern, N. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Watts, N., et al., The 2020 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (The Lancet, 2020).
Politics and governance
Figueres, C. and T. Rivett-Carnac. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Manilla Press, 2020).
Giddens, A. The Politics of Climate Change, 2nd edn (Polity Press, 2011).
Grubb, M. Planetary Economics: Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development (Routledge, 2014).
Gupta, J. The History of Global Climate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
IPCC, Climate Change 2022—Mitigation of Climate Change, Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Klein, N. On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (Allen Lane, 2019).
Labatt S. and R.R. White Carbon Finance (Wiley, 2007).
Metcalf, G.E. Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America (OUP, 2019).
Meyer, A. Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change (Green Books, 2015).
Thunberg, G. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, paperback (Penguin, 2019).
Solutions
Buck, H.J. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, 2019).
Cole, L. Who Cares Wins: Reason for Optimism in Our Changing World (Penguin, 2020).
Georgeson, L., M. Poessinouw, and M. Maslin Assessing the Definition and Measurement of the Global Green Economy (Geo: Geography and Environment, 2017). doi: 10.1002/geo2.36
Goodall, C. What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future (Profile Books, 2020).
Hawken, P. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, 2018).
Helm, D. Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change (William Collins, 2020).
IPCC, Climate Change 2021—Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Jackson, T. Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Routledge, 2016).
Morton, O. The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (Granta, 2016).
Roaf, S., et al. Adapting Building and Cities for Climate Change (Routledge, 2009).
Royal Society, Geoengineering the climate: Science, governance and uncertainty: The Royal Society Science Policy Centre Report, The Royal Society, 10/09 (2009): 81.
General reading
Berners-Lee, M. There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Flannery, T. Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis (Penguin, 2015).
Hayhoe, K. The Answer to Climate Change: And Why We Can Have Hope (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021).
Lynas, M. Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (Fourth Estate, 2020).
Mazzucato, M. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Penguin 2019).
Raworth, K. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Random House, 2017).
Royal Society, People and the planet, The Royal Society Science Policy Centre Report, The Royal Society, 01/12 (2012): 81.
Sachs, J. The Ages of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2020).
Wallace-Wells, D. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Penguin, 2019).