📈 Data and Metrics that can help fix the Climate Change

🔥🌏 This is a curated list of data visualizations and metrics related to climate change - hoping to give insight into the matter!

Climate change is the biggest threat of our generation. Emissions are rising and according to the newest IPCC report, we are heading towards an unprecedented disaster. Political outrage is slowly forming but we also need technological disruptions! This living list aims to educate hackers and developers on promising tech projects against climate change, hoping to inspire immediate and disruptive technological climate action!

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What is climate change?

• 350 - Climate Science Basics
• Tomorrow - A pragmatic guide to Climate Change

🌍 Climate Change and Society

• Global Carbon Atlas is a platform to explore and visualize the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes resulting from human activities and natural processes.
• Climate Impact Lab is a collaboration of 30 climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers, analysts, and students from the US providing insights into climate change.
• The Gold Standard manages best practice standards for climate and sustainable development interventions to maximise impact.
• Project Drawdown maps out causes and 100 solutions to global warming. The structure of this list is inspired by Project Drawdown. [TED Talk]

🔌 Energy

• ElectricityMap.org

Danish

• Energistyrrelsen (Danish Energy Agency)
• Statistics Denmark - Energy and Emission

🌾 Food

🌲 Land

• Global Forest Watch - An global overview of forestation / deforestation

🐠 Ocean

🏠 Buildings and Cities

🚗 Transport

• Flight Emission Map - Calculate the CO2 emissions in kg for a return flight between any two cities in the world

♻ Materials

🔮 Emerging Solutions

💸 Funding

Innovative projects need funding, this is a list of resources where hackers and devs can seek for it.

• Microsoft AI for Earth is an innovation program from Microsoft that supports sustainable projects with an grants, PR and networking opportunities.
• Climate KIC is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and identifies and supports innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change.
• Climate-KIC Accelerator supports startups that aspire to create a positive effect on climate issues.
• Y Combinator requests and funds startups that concentrate on frontier technologies such as carbon removal.
• Hack4Climate is an innovation program, supported by the UNFCCC, designed to accelerate disruptive and tangible climate solutions at scale.