• Dataset of U.S. School Bus Fleets

    This dataset contains detailed information on the composition of school bus fleets in the United States. It dataset contains data from 46 states and the District of Columbia, though the specific data available vary by state. For most states, the dataset includes bus-level information, such as the...

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  • China Overseas Finance Inventory Database

    The COFI database includes power-generation projects in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries financed by Chinese corporations and banks that reached financial closure from 2000 to 2023. Types of financing include debt and equity investment, with the latter including greenfield foreign direct...

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  • Featured Dataset of Electric School Bus Adoption in the United States

    Transitioning to electric school buses (ESBs) from traditional diesel-powered school buses can reduce students’ exposure to air pollution and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. School districts and private fleet operators around the United States are adopting electric school buses with increasing...

  • Local Government Renewables Action Tracker

    The Tracker contains information on two types of renewables activities commonly being pursued by local governments in the United States: 1. Electricity purchases and transactions, such as on-site solar, community solar projects, off-site power purchase agreements (PPAs), and green tariff...

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  • Supplementary Materials for "State of the Nationally Determined Contributions...

    This dataset presents information on the adaptation components of 86 countries’ NDCs submitted until June 30, 2021, in association with the working paper State of the Nationally Determined Contributions: Enhancing Adaptation Ambition. Nine NAPs submitted by the 86 countries during this time frame...

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  • Datasheet for Technical Note: A Breakdown of Developed Countries’ Public Clim...

    This dataset contains a breakdown of developed countries individual public contributions in public climate finance towards the $100 billion commitment between 2013-2018. This dataset was used in WRI’s technical note ‘A Breakdown of Developed Countries’ Public Climate Finance Contributions Towards...

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  • Sarawak oil palm concessions

    This data set provides the boundaries of known oil palm concessions for the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, and was compiled from available public documents. Where available, associated information provided with this data set includes licensee name, permit number (Operational Ticket), corporate...

  • Featured Global Power Plant Database

    The Global Power Plant Database is a comprehensive, open source database of power plants around the world. It centralizes power plant data to make it easier to navigate, compare and draw insights for one’s own analysis. The database covers approximately 35,000 power plants from 167 countries and...

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  • WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities’ Water and Sanitation 15-City Study

    To address the absence of comparable city-level water data, this dataset compiles data from 15 global South cities located in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America and among the regions that are the focus of the World Resources Report (WRR) "Towards a More Equal City". The 15 cities...

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  • Climate Watch - U.S. States Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Climate Watch Historical GHG Emissions module enables data analysis by allowing users to quickly narrow down by year, gas, state, and sector. Automatic calculations for percent changes from prior year, per capita, per GDP, and cumulative number across years are also available. Users are presented...

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  • Índice de Desigualdad Urbana (Index of Urban Inequality)

    The main objective of the UII methodology is to estimate the level of accessibility/proximity to urban equipment for different socioeconomic strata in cities. This allows to compare and identify inequality in the territorial distribution of development opportunities such as formal employment,...

  • Climate Watch (CAIT) - UNFCCC Annex I GHG Emissions Data

    The CAIT Paris Contributions Map was made available in 2014 to enables users to explore, compare, and assess countries climate committments in each country's Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). Countries are not submitting and updating their national climate committments through...

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  • Featured Climate Watch – Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Data (previously CA...

    The CAIT Paris Contributions Map was made available in 2014 to enables users to explore, compare, and assess countries climate commitments in each country's Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). Countries are not submitting and updating their national climate commitments through...

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  • Climate Watch Pathways (previously CAIT - Emissions Projections)

    The CAIT Projections module was made available in 2015 and provided ready access to emission projections for major emitters through the year 2100 (if data is available). All data is now available on Climate Watch. In addition to providing emissions data, this tool aims to increase the...

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  • Climate Watch (CAIT) - Country Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

    The dataset applies a consistent methodology to create a six-gas, multi-sector, and internationally comparable data set for 197 countries. It enables data analysis by allowing users to quickly narrow down by year, gas, country/state, and sector. Automatic calculations for percent changes from...

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  • Land Use in Selected Indian Cities

    The dataset comprises eleven series of land use/land cover (LULC) maps, each corresponding to one city in India—Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Hindupur, Hyderabad, Jalna, Kanpur, Parbhani, Pune, Singrauli, Sitapur, or Vijayawada—and containing one map per year for 2015–2018. Every map contains several...

  • Featured Intact Forest Landscapes (2013)

    "The Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) data set identifies unbroken expanses of natural ecosystems within the zone of forest extent that show no signs of significant human activity and are large enough that all native biodiversity, including viable populations of wide-ranging species, could be...

  • Featured RSPO Palm Oil Mills

    Certification of sustainable palm oil production is handled through the palm oil mill and its supply base. The certification includes plantations managed by the mill and plantations managed by other suppliers, including smallholders. To have its oil mill certified, a palm oil producer must show a...

  • Climate Vulnerable Forum Mapping of Opportunities

    This data maps opportunities for Climate Vulnerable Forum countries to enhance their Nationally Determined Contribution by 2020.

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  • Featured Archive fires for Indonesia

    The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) delivers global MODIS-derived hotspots and fire locations. The active fire locations represent the center of a 1-kilometer pixel that is flagged by the MOD14/MYD14 Fire and Thermal Anomalies Algorithm as containing one or more fires...

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