August research links

Our work involves ongoing research into divestment, investment, climate change, the energy transition (or lack thereof), and related issues. Henceforth, we'll be publishing these each month as a list of links. You can locate all past research under its own category tag.

• Global Gas Lock-in. Bridge to nowhere

• NY Times: How much hotter is your home town? (Yes, this works for many SA cities).

• The SA's long-awaited draft IRP 2018 [electricity resource policy): still way too much coal and gas, but at least demand projections are more reasonable and nuclear is deferred

• Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

• Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals

• For years, it's been clear that scientists are understating the overall urgency of the climate crisis. Now there's a vital new report about this.

• Guest post: Why BECCS might not produce ‘negative’ emissions after all

• Germany’s Failed Climate Goals: A Wake-Up Call for Governments Everywhere

• Capitalism can crack climate change. But only if it takes risks

• How 139 countries could be powered by 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy by 2050

• Carbon pricing can spur economic growth more than we thought, says new research

• Roadmaps for 139 countries to use 100% wind-water-solar in all energy sectors

• Canadian church concludes that investors needn’t sacrifice investment returns to own a portfolio that’s aligned with their values and helps build a low carbon future.

• Lord Nicholas Stern: Economic reasons to act immediately on climate change

• ‘Peak coal’ is getting closer, latest figures show

• Global carbon tax in isolation could ‘exacerbate food insecurity by 2050’

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state

• The economic cost of climate change: time for new math

• Shareholder activism in SA – a shuffle rather than a shift