Resources

To keep global warming below 2°C, the international community needs to maintain the total cumulative emissions below 1,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is our ‘carbon budget’. So far we used 595 billion tonnes or nearly 60% percent of our carbon budget. 

Trillionthtonne expects that the 1,000 billion tonnes will be emitted by 31 October 2038. The international community is called to agree upon a sound post-2020 climate governance in order to attempt at reverting current trends and stay within our carbon budget.

Climate Science

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 

Climate: Get the big picture - UNFCCC 

Understanding the IPCC Reports - WRI 

Carbon briefing: Making sense of the IPCC’s new carbon budget 

Resources

Are we on track for 2°C? 

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data – EPA 

Global Carbon Atlas – Global Carbon Project 

www.trillionthtonne.org - Real-time update of the state of our carbon budget 

Facts for Paris 

Assessing ambition of the INDCs 

Climate and Energy College 

CAIT Equity Explorer - Online tool to visualize the many dimensions of climate equity 

The Global Landscape of Climate Finance – Climate Policy Initiative 

Empty Promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production – The Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International 

Energy Technology Perspectives 2015: Mobilising Innovation to Accelerate Climate Action – IEA 

REthinking Energy 2015 – Renewable Energy and Climate – IRENA 

Oil price plunge and clean energy: The real impact – Bloomberg New Energy Finance 

Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings: A Handbook for Local Government – UNEP 

Shaping Expectations to Foster the Low Carbon Transition: Can COP21 be a catalyst for action? – INSIGHT_E 

Strengthening non-state climate action: a progress assessment of commitments launched at the 2014 UN Climate Summit – LSE/GRI/DIE 

Is the Future of Electricity Generation Really Distributed? – Energy Institute, Berkeley Hass 

Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: From Rhetoric to Reality – ODI 

Speaking truth to power: why energy distribution, more than generation, is Africa’s poverty reduction challenge – ODI  

Global Green Economy Index 2014 Report 

Developed countries agree to cut coal subsidies in 2017 – Euractiv 

Three Reasons Clean Energy has Permanently Decoupled From the Oil and Gas Markets – The Huffington Post 

Renewable Energy Offers Speed and Scale Needed for Climate Action – The Huffington Post 

Thanks for the Memories, Fossil Fuels, but Now It's Time to Change – The Huffington Post 

Following in Shell’s footsteps, oil major Statoil will also exit the Alaskan Arctic – The Washington Post 

Gambling the World Economy on Climate – The Wall Street Journal 

COP21 will end a decade of failed climate finance – Euractiv 

The Paris climate-change conference needs to be more ambitious – The Economist