Data Is The New Oil - 25.03.2021 Update
CO2 credits, Net zero benchmarks, Disaster locations, Long-term emissions and French energy.
đŽ CO2 credits. After languishing for most of the past 10 years, carbon markets are making a comeback thanks to corporate and governmental pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions. There is increasing interest in the unregulated market that is used by private businesses to offset their emissions, with 93 million tonnes of credits retired in 2020 - a record - and 36 mt so far in 2021. Trove Intelligence recently published a dashboard showing the number of traded credits in the voluntary carbon market, split by project type, registry and location. I have also scraped data on 200k credits from the four main public registries, which Iâve used to make this chart.
đ» Net zero benchmarks. Climate Action 100+, a lobby group representing institutional investors committed to the energy transition, published net zero emission ratings for 167 listed CO2 emitters in the oil and gas, utility and automotive sectors. Companiesâ progresses towards net zero are assessed using publicly available data and the International Energy Agencyâs beyond two degrees scenario. The data can be browsed online or downloaded in excel. Separately, check out this dashboard tracking net zero legislation in 130+ countries worldwide.
đ„ Disaster locations. Researchers published the latitude and longitude coordinates for each disaster in the EM-DAT database, the largest such repository in the world. The geocoded dataset (registration required) contains spatial information on nearly 10k disasters that occurred between 1960 and 2018. An article in Nature describes the initiative (hat tip: Jeremy Singer-Vine).
đ Long-term CO2 emissions. US think tank Climate Interactive, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology offshoot, released an online simulation dashboard for global CO2 emissions to 2100. The user can adjust variables on energy supply, transport, economic and population growth. The tool shows that it will take strong and sustained efforts from many different economic sectors to curb global warming.
đ«đ· French energy. The French government has opened ever-increasing volumes of data to the public in the past few months. Recently, it has published datasets on nuclear and coal-fired power stations, subsidised green projects and waste treatment plants. Also, check out this geographic data file containing the position of the countryâs wind farms and this other dataset of monthly soil humidity (registration required).
Other Data Updates
đ Researchers built a database of the largest 100 hydropower plants in the Mekong region, using various sources.
đĄ Researcher Dave Havyatt published a dataset of annual electricity prices in Australia split by region and consumer type.
đ· The Humanitarian Data Exchange released a dataset of Covid-19 cases, deaths and recoveries for Africa.
đ France published a summary count of hydrogen projects for 20 European countries.
đ The Netherlands released CO2 emissions data for 2020.
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