Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is a pretty good introduction to the challenge, very accessible and framing the challenge of climate change in the wider context of a developing world with rising energy needs (something the debate too often forgets).
Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air is somewhat dated now, but a classic and available freely on the internet (https://www.withouthotair.com/).
The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success by Mark Jaccard is also good, although it does not give a full overview in the way the other books mentioned here do.
Victor and Cullenward—Making Climate Policy Work is good.
On the science side, for an overview, I would recommend just reading the summary for policymakers or technical summary of the IPCC 2013 Physical science basis report.
For long-termist/ex-risk takes the following are good
Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is a pretty good introduction to the challenge, very accessible and framing the challenge of climate change in the wider context of a developing world with rising energy needs (something the debate too often forgets).
Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air is somewhat dated now, but a classic and available freely on the internet (https://www.withouthotair.com/).
The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success by Mark Jaccard is also good, although it does not give a full overview in the way the other books mentioned here do.
Victor and Cullenward—Making Climate Policy Work is good.
On the science side, for an overview, I would recommend just reading the summary for policymakers or technical summary of the IPCC 2013 Physical science basis report.
For long-termist/ex-risk takes the following are good
King et al Climate Change a Risk Assessment
Hansen et al, Climate Sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric CO2
Clark et al, Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change