Our latest book, out today: Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders

Our latest book was just released online today by IOP Publishing (The Institute of Physics). It’s called Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders.

The publisher’s page for the book is https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-4032-8.

This textbook grew out of a course my colleague Ian Monroe and I taught at Stanford in 2017 and 2018, titled “Implementing Climate Solutions at Scale”. Its intended audience is academics and practitioners teaching classes like that one, though we hope others will also find it useful.

We posted some key parts of the book online:

Table of contents

Preface

Foreword by Professor Kimberly Nicholas

This book goes beyond our original courses to provide a more comprehensive framework for solving climate change than we’ve found elsewhere. We include an overview of climate solution technologies, as well as analytical tools necessary to identify solutions that really work. We also explore what’s needed to align incentives, mobilize money, and elevate truth in climate conversations, key pillars of climate action that are often overlooked by techno-centric discussions of global emissions reductions.

The overarching framing of the book (*the eight pillars of solving climate change”) is summarized in this graphic:

Please do reach out to me and Ian with questions, ideas for outreach, and suggestions for the next edition. You can also sign up for our mailing list by going to http://www.solveclimate.org and paging down a bit on the first page. Finally, if your institution has a library, please put in a request for them to purchase the book. It’s priced on the high side ($120), as textbooks often are, so it may be out of reach for many individuals, but libraries and companies should be able to afford it.