Climate Watch is a free online platform designed to empower policymakers, advocates, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change.
8. Intro Climate Watch
USE CASES
123+ Government
Ministries & IOs from
55+ countries
35,000+
data downloads
380,000+
Users in total since
launch
400+
Major Companies
Researchers, NGOs &
Media from nearly
every country
25 (I)NDCs
from 16 countries
reference CW
13. SOURCES OF GHG INVENTORY
Intro Climate Watch
• Official sources
• Parties’ reporting to the UNFCCC
• Annex I: National Inventory reports (CRF)
• Non-Annex I: National Communications, Biennial Update Reports
• National governments
• Unofficial sources
• Sectoral
• IEA – emissions from fossil fuel combustion
• FAO – emissions from agriculture and forest
• Global Carbon Project – Carbon emissions
• U.S. EPA – non-CO2 GHG emissions
• Aggregated inventories
• PIK Primap-hist
• EDGAR
• Climate Watch
14. EMISSIONS DATA ON CLIMATE WATCH
Intro Climate Watch
UNFCCC Climate Watch PIK PRIMAP-hist GCP
Temporal coverage 1990-2019 for Annex I
Varied coverage for non-
countries
1990-2019 1850-2019 1960-2020
Sector coverage IPCC sectors IPCC sectors IPCC sectors Fossil fuel combustion and
cement production
Gas coverage Kyoto GHGs Kyoto GHGs Kyoto GHGs CO2 only
Timeliness 2-3 year lag 3 year lag 3 year lag 1-2 year lag
Use of country reported
the UNFCC
Only uses UNFCCC reported Does not
data
Uses UNFCCC reported data
fills gaps*
Uses UNFCCC reported data
fills gaps
Comparability Comparable across Annex 1
Parties, but not to non-Annex
Parties due to different
requirements between Annex
and non-Annex 1 Parties.
Consistent methodology used
across all countries to
comparability
Uses national inventories
available and fills in the gaps.
Therefore, comparability
depending on country groups
(Annex 1 / non-Annex 1) and
years.
Comparable across countries.
Source: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/about/faq/ghg
15. Intro Climate Watch
Source: Climate Watch, based on raw data from IEA (2021), GHG Emissions from Fuel Combustion, www.iea.org/statistics; modified by WRI.
20. OVERVIEW OF COMMITMENTS
Key Modules
1. Climate commitments under the Paris Agreement 2. Increasing ambition of climate commitments
3. Other climate commitments
Source: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ndc-overview
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Purpose of the meeting
WRI is a global think tank, and one thing that WRI does is to work on Data.
We are leading the Climate Watch platform that focuses on everything related to Climate Change commitments, and GHG emissions, but we also have plenty of other platform and resources focused on different topics, such as our Global Forest Watch which focuses on forests, deforestation, etc. and other platforms on Energy, Water, etc.
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on Climate Change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, December 2015, and entered into force on 4 November 2016.
It’s goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to preindustrial levels.
The Paris Agreement works on a 5-year cycle of increasingly ambitious climate action carried out by countries. In every cycle, countries submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), communicating the actions they will take to reduce their Greenhouse Gas emissions in order to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Long-Term Strategies
To better frame the efforts towards the long-term goal, the Paris Agreement invites countries to formulate and submit by 2020 long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS).
LT-LEDS provide the long-term horizon to the NDCs. Unlike NDCs, they are not mandatory. Nevertheless, they place the NDCs into the context of countries’ long-term planning and development priorities, providing a vision and direction for future development.
Net-Zero targets
In addition, countries are encouraged to adopt a Net-Zero target by mid century.
https://www.wri.org/insights/net-zero-ghg-emissions-questions-answered
So what is CW?
It is a website. A hub with 100s of credible datasents, and 100 of thousands of data points. A user friendly visualization tool that provides a place for quick insights as well as long deep dives.
We offer open data on countries past and future GHG emissions, and granular information on countries climate targets, such as nationally determined contributions, long term strategies, policies, and so on.
Our goal is to bring transparency, but also make your work possible and easier to help everyone ultimately drive climate actions.
Getting insights that would not have been possible just looking at the PDFs that countries submit to the UNFCCC.
A big part of our work this year is to make climate commitments more transparent and accessible. We are an informational platform,in the sense that we don’t make suggestions on what each country should do, but we provide the data so that you can make informed decisions yourself.
In 2020 we focused on developing new modules and updating existing ones.
In 2021, our focus is on
We are supported by a group of reputable organizations that help us bring together the most comprehensive data on GHG, NDCs, LTS targets on the web, as well as funders who are key in developing the tool.
One of our main target audience are governments and organizations working directly with governments, helping them in their climate commitments.
In addition, we also help researchers and major companies from around the world.
Investment decisions
Private sector action, planning and how it can align with national targets
Updating of NDCs, comparing it with others
Planning for implementation
Reporting and transparency
Introduction by the person from the external organization
Purpose of the meeting
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We are leading the Climate Watch platform that focuses on everything related to Climate Change commitments, and GHG emissions, but we also have plenty of other platform and resources focused on different topics, such as our Global Forest Watch which focuses on forests, deforestation, etc. and other platforms on Energy, Water, etc.
WRI is a global think tank, and one thing that WRI does is to work on Data.
We are leading the Climate Watch platform that focuses on everything related to Climate Change commitments, and GHG emissions, but we also have plenty of other platform and resources focused on different topics, such as our Global Forest Watch which focuses on forests, deforestation, etc. and other platforms on Energy, Water, etc.
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https://www.climatewatchdata.org/2020-ndc-tracker
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https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ndcs-explore
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