Climate 🌳
The onboarding manual to get started in climate 🌳

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The weight of 10 billion elephants → This is how much CO2e we pump into our atmosphere every single year 🤯
If we don't want our planet to go up in flames, we need to cut our carbon emissions by 2050.
What does it mean?
1. It's a colossal challenge.
2. It's a colossal business opportunity.
3. It's a colossal quest to participate in.
If we don't want our planet to go up in flames, we need to cut our carbon emissions by 2050.
What does it mean?
1. It's a colossal challenge.
2. It's a colossal business opportunity.
3. It's a colossal quest to participate in.
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
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Read these 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
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What can you do on an individual level?
- 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.