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A curated collection of climate policy tools and data platforms, built and maintained by leading research organisations.

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iTEM Open Database

iTEM Open Database

International Transport Energy Modeling , or iTEM , is an open group of people and organizations interested in the role of energy in the world’s transport system. Their shared goal is to better understand the methods and data that are employed to study this system—especially, model with international or global scope—and through dialogue to improve knowledge of the system, its ongoing evolution, and the policy and technology options for guiding its changes. This dataset and documentation contains detailed information of the iTEM Open Database, a harmonized transport data set of historical values, 1970 – 2018. It aims to create transparency through two key features: The iTEM Open Database is comprised of individual datasets collected from public sources. Each dataset is downloaded, cleaned, and harmonised to the common region and technology definitions defined by the iTEM consortium https://transportenergy.org. For each dataset, we describe the name of the dataset, the web link to the original source, the web link to the cleaning script (in python), variables, and explain the data cleaning steps (which explains the data cleaning script in plain English).

2022 IAMC
Kapsarc Data Portal
Interactive Charts

Kapsarc Data Portal

The Data Portal is available to anyone seeking energy data for research. It contains over 1200 datasets from 175 sources, covering various aspects of energy supply and demand, as well as climate, economy, demography, trade, water, and policies. The portal also allows access to KAPSARC’s policy simulators and tools, such as the CCE Index, the H2 Cost Analysis Model, the Saudi Arabia Energy Balance, and more

WRI
Nature-based Solutions platform

Nature-based Solutions platform

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are actions that enable the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural and managed ecosystems, that can simultaneously provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits. Nature-based solutions (NbS) include land restoration actions such as agroforestry, grassland and grazing management, conservation agriculture, etc. that help to protect, restore and/or sustainably manage ecosystems. NbS are now receiving increased attention in the policy space owing to their potential to deliver a multitude of environmental and human well-being benefits and thereby help address many global sustainable development challenges simultaneously. NbS can help generate multiple benefits for society, such as food and water security , climate mitigation and adaptation , while addressing biodiversity loss . This is their unique selling point. NbS can therefore contribute towards the achievement of many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) simultaneously, including in particular, climate action (SDG 13), life on land (SDG 15), zero hunger (SDG2) and clean water and sanitation (SDG6), alongside many others.

2021 IAMC
RCP Database

RCP Database

The “RCP Database” aims at documenting the emissions, concentrations, and land-cover change projections of the so-called “Representative Concentration Pathways” (RCPs). A handshake document between the Integrated Assessment and Climate Modeling community coordinated the data provided as input for the “Coupled Model Intercomparison Project” 5 (CMIP5). The final RCPs have been documented in a Special Issue that was published in 2011. Version 2.0 of the database includes harmonized and consolidated data for the RCPs. This comprises emissions pathways starting from identical base year (2000) for BC, OC, CH4, Sulfur, NOx, VOC, CO and NH3. In addition, harmonized well-mixed GHG emissions of the RCPs have been added for the period 2005 to 2100. Radiative forcing and concentrations of GHGs are given for the RCPs up to the year 2100, and are extended for climate modeling experiments to 2300 (ECPs). Wherever available, historical information is provided back to the year 1850.

2008 IAMC
Resource Watch
Interactive Maps

Resource Watch

The platform features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Data can be used to visualize challenges faced by people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

2018 WRI
Aqueduct
Raw Data

Aqueduct

An open-source, peer reviewed data to map water risks such as floods, droughts and stress. Beyond the tools, the Aqueduct team works one-on-one with companies, Government Ministriess and research partners through the Aqueduct Alliance to help advance best practices in water resource management and enable sustainable growth in a water-constrained world.

2013 WRI
Climate Central Data Tools
Interactive Charts

Climate Central Data Tools

Climate Central communicates climate change science, effects, and solutions to the public and decision-makers. Climate Central uses science, big data, and technology to generate local storylines and compelling visuals that make climate change personal and show what can be done about it.

2008 WRI
STITCHES emulator

STITCHES emulator

Climate models are a main source of future climate information, but they are extremely expensive and slow to run. Studies concerned with the effects of climate change on human and natural systems often need climate information for emissions trajectories not run by climate models. Previously, emulators have attempted to create climate information for these trajectories. However, they usually fall short of the information demands of increasingly sophisticated impact models. STITCHES , a new emulator, works by stitching together building blocks of actual climate model experiment outcomes to create new trajectories. By construction, STITCHES’ output has the same complexity and richness of climate model output to meet the needs of impact modelers. Read the full info about the new STITCHES model here

2022 IAMC
C-ROADS
Interactive Charts

C-ROADS

C-ROADS helps people understand the long-term climate impacts of national and regional greenhouse gas emission reductions at the global level.

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