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4.5: Supplementary Readings and Sources

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    Supplementary Readings

    Ramanathan, V., et al. 2015. Executive summary of the report, Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability. University of California. https://uc-carbonneutralitysummit2015.ucsd .edu/_files/Bending-the-Curve.pdf.

    Sources for the Figures

    Figure 4.1.1: Ramanathan, V., et al. 2017. Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change, 2017. http://fore.yale.edu/climate-change/...e/well-under-2 -degrees-celsius/.

    Figure 4.2.1: Mumbai photograph by Johnny Miller/mediadrumimages.com. https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-45257901.

    Figure 4.3.1: Ramanathan, V., et al. 2017. Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change, 2017. http://fore.yale.edu/climate-change/...e/well-under-2 -degrees-celsius/.

    Figure 4.3.2: Davis, S. J., et al. 2018. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, 6396, eaas9793. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aas9793.

    Figure 4.4.1: C40 Cities. 2017. C40 Cities Annual Report 2017. https://c40 -production-images.s3.amazonaws.com/other_uploads/images/1965_C40_ ANNUAL_REPORT_2017.original.pdf?1539177112.

    Figure 4.4.2: The Under2 Coalition around the world. https://www.under2 coalition.org/about.

    Figure 4.4.3: California Air Resources Board. https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/pillars/ pillars.htm.

    Sources for the Text

    4.1 Setting the Stage for Mitigation

    Morgan, M. G., et al. 2018. US nuclear power: the vanishing low-carbon wedge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115, 7184– 7189. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.108465515.

    Ramanathan, V., et al. 2015. Executive summary of the report, Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability. University of California. https://uc-carbonneutralitysummit2015.ucsd .edu/_files/Bending-the-Curve.pdf.

    REN 21. 2018. Renewables 2018 Global Status Report. REN21 Secretariat, Paris, France. https://www.ren21.net/wp-content/upl...eport-2018.pdf.

    United Nations Environmental Programme. 2011. Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone: Summary for Decision Makers. UNION Publishing Services, Nairobi, Kenya.

    4.2 The Six Clusters

    IPCC. 2013. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T. F., et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/.

    4.3 The Ten Solutions

    Davis, S. J., et al. 2018. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, 6396, eaas9793. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aas9793.

    Erickson, P., et al. 2017. Effect of subsidies to fossil fuel companies on United States crude oil production. Nature Energy 2, 891–898. https://doi.org/10 .1038/s41560-017-0009-8.

    IPCC. 2018. Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/.

    REN 21. 2018. Renewables 2018 Global Status Report. REN21 Secretariat, Paris, France. https://www.ren21.net/wp-content/upl...eport-2018.pdf.

    4.4 Living Laboratories

    C40 Cities. 2017. C40 Cities Annual Report 2017. Retrieved from https://www .c40.org.

    C40 Cities. Networks. https://www.c40.org/networks.

    California Air Resources Board. 2018, July 11. Climate pollutants fall below 1990 levels for first time. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/climate-pollutants -fall-below-1990-levels-first-time.

    California Energy Commission. 2018. Tracking Progress. https://www.energy. ca.gov/data-reports/tracking-progress.

    California Legislative Information. 2018, August 20. SB-100 California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f...nt.xhtml?bill_ id=201720180SB100.

    Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. 2018, February 23. UCI “islands” its microgrid from Southern California Edison grid. http://engineering.uci .edu/news/2018/2/uci-islands-its-microgrid-southern-california-edison-grid.

    Streiff, L. G., and Ramanathan, V. 2017. Under 2°C living laboratories. Urban Climate 21, 195–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclima.2017.06.008.

    UCI Sustainability. 2018. Energy Programs and Projects: Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability. http://sustainability.uci.edu/sustainable campus/energy/. Under2 Secretariat: The Climate Group. 2017.

    Under2 Coalition Highlights 2017. https://www.under2coalition.org/news...ion-highlights.

    University of California. 2018. Carbon Neutrality Initiative. https://www .universityofcalifornia.edu/initiative/carbon-neutrality-initiative.

    Weber, C. 2018, July 12. California meets greenhouse gas reduction goal years early. AP News. https://www.apnews.com/942b5a251fac413a84fc 4eb93a67c46c/California-meets-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goal-years-early.


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