Climate 🌳

Getting started in climate ain't easy 🤷‍♂️

Here are some helpful resources that have helped me on my journey 🌳

ps: I have a similar collection for energy ⚡️

First Things First

• Interview: Ramez Naam, futurist, author, and investor (Noah Smith) → Understand where climate technology is at today.
• Finding a job in climate (Nan Ransohoff) → Great primer to see different routes into climate.
• Back to School: Why I Decided to Get a Law Degree at this Point in My Career (Art Lapinsch) → The thinking process and documentation of my personal climate journey.
• A mental model for combating climate change (Nan Ransohoff) → Great lens on the problem scape of climate.
• Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (Our World in Data) → Primer on learning curves for renewables.
• The House of Day Zero (Art Lapinsch) → Understand the scope of the problem.
• Summary for Policymakers (IPCC) → Condensed version of the IPCC climate report. It's the golden standard for climate research.

📊 Business & Research

• Pale Blue Dot → Research memos in various areas of climate tech.
• Tracking Clean Energy Progress → IEA's technology tracker.
• Speed & Scale Tracker → Progress tracker across six decarbonization areas.
• Climate Investment Manifesto → Shanu's framework for evaluating climate investment opportunities.
• Carbon Removal Technologies → Sci-fi-esque ideas of how to fix the climate crisis.
• Solutions Library → Project Drawdown's overview of climate positive solution spaces.

💨 Carbon Removal & Other Greenhouse Gases

• CDR Primer → A curated primer from a dozen of experts on carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
• We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky (Ryan Orbuch) → If you're interested in carbon removal, read this post first.
• Scaling Carbon Removal (Neil Hacker) → Technical primer to carbon removal.
• The $40T Market Hiding in Plain Sight (Christoph Bernkopf) → Technical and commercial analysis of other greenhouses gases (methane & nitrous oxide).

Climate Risks

• Why Near-Term Warming Matters (Spark Climate) → A good intro into near-term warming and associated risks/challenges.

Decarbonization Pathways

• How can we repurpose the stranded assets? (Staffan Qvist) → Repurposing/decarbonizing coal plants via (1) nuclear or (2) geothermal.

💪 Personal Climate Action

• A Data-Driven Guide to Effective Personal Climate Action (Erika Reinhardt) → Erika wrote the seminal deep-dive on potential impacts of personal climate action.

🎙 Podcasts

• Catalyst w/ Shayle Kann → Each podcast focuses on a single topic.
• Climate One → Deep-dives on technical topics.
• My Climate Journey → Interviews with entrepreneurs and scientists working in climate. MCJ also offers a curated Slack community, which is great to get started.

✍️ Great Writing

• Nicholas Yiu → Best writer on battery technologies.
• Noah Smith → Economist turned Substack writer, with ocassional posts about climate tech and energy.
• Pauliina Meskanen → My favorite writer for technical breakdowns/intro pieces.
• Tsung Xu → Most knowledgeable writer about the fuzzy front-end of material science.
• Climate Tech VC → Best starting point for market breakdowns.
• CarbonBrief → Data-driven news about climate.

VCs & Capital

• Lowercarbon Capital → Probably the #1 firm in the game.
• Pale Blue Dot → European boutique VC focused on climate.
• 2150.vc → Climate tech for urban environments.

🤷‍♂️ Other Resources

• Climate Buddies → My collection of Twitter accounts to follow.
• Resources for the Future → Tutorials and intro reading about climate-related topics.

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Also, let me know which other resources I should add to this list.