Climate Change, Fossil Fuels and Global Warming

Essay title: What progress is being made to address global climate change? Too little, too late?
https://www.agi.it/estero/clima_cop_25_fallimento-6741814/news/2019-12-15/
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_6691
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/europe-climate-crisis-european-green-deal-growth
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-commissions-green-deal-plan-unveiled/

Background reading:

There has been little real progress according to this brilliant, short data-based analysis. You should read it in detail and think about the consequences:

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/22/analysis-warns-lack-progress-2020-global-emissions-target

https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/01/climate-action-barometer-12-charts-explain-where-we-are-today-and-where-we-need-be-2020

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/climate-change-report-card-co2-emissions/

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-challenging-politics-of-climate-change/

UN position and reports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8M-2gSm3bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1yiCiyK5Ro

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-change/

and then https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-threatens-progress-across-sustainable-development-warns-new-un-report

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1045592

https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/gaef3516.doc.htm

Evidence (basic)

https://climate.nasa.gov/

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Politics of global warming (good!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_global_warming

Paris Agreement

Don't spend much time on this in an essay since the scientists seem to think it is not enough anyway and you should concentrate on the facts in 2019 and forecasts for 2020. See the start of this post

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Paris-Agreement-2015

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement

EU

http://www.caneurope.org/docman/climate-energy-targets/3357-off-target-ranking-of-eu-countries-ambition-and-progress-in-fighting-climate-change/file

https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/progress_en

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/innovative-european-renewable-energy-projects/

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/renewable-gross-final-energy-consumption-4/assessment-3

Italy

https://www.climate-change-performance-index.org/country/italy

https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/countries-regions/countries/italy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-italy/strike-for-the-climate-italys-education-minister-tells-students-idUSKBN1W828G

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-climate-change-lessons-school-environment-global-warming-children-a9187216.html

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Share_of_energy_from_renewable_sources_2017_infograph.png

Living with Climate Change

https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/living-with-climate-change/

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/geostory/living-climate-change/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181102-what-can-i-do-about-climate-change

Green Energies

https://www.iea.org/tcep/

https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-can-renewable-energy-power-the-world/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/innovative-european-renewable-energy-projects/

https://www.iea.org/renewables2019/

General outlook

See pages 14-15 of https://www.worldenergy.org/assets/downloads/Scenarios_Report_FINAL_for_website.pdf

See pages 12-14 of

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Oil%20and%20Gas/Our%20Insights/Global%20Energy%20Perspective%202019/McKinsey-Energy-Insights-Global-Energy-Perspective-2019_Reference-Case-Summary.ashx

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/11/1050831

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/climate-action-un-antonio-guterres

See the article in English and Italian in the Dropbox, in the articles folder, on 'How renewable energy became unstoppable' ('l'energia verde è inarrestabile') and the one in Italian on 'l'energia pulita è ancora lontana'.