The OpenClimate Network: Nested and Connected Climate Accounting for a Digitally...
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OpenClimate Network is a production open source web service that harmonizes emissions, targets and actions into a queryable API and downloadable datasets, built on Postgres / Express / React / Node and licensed ASL 2.0. It ingests 63 data sources and holds 146,000 actors, 360,000 annual emissions records and about 4,000 targets, tags every datum with provenance, and exposes a REST API plus a Python client and CSV/JSON exports. It pilots DIDs/verified credentials, plans GraphQL, uses LLMs for PDF extraction, and finds only ~5% of cities publish emissions data.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:54Climate Change
- 4:26Roles and relationships
- 4:58Coordinating Activity
- 10:06Schema: Emissions
- 11:29Schema: Metadata
- 12:17Sourcing: International
- 14:02Explorer
- 15:43Federation: Data Commons
- 22:13Next: Actions and Plans
- 22:59Next: Easier contributions
- 26:29Stats: Data Coverage
- 29:31Questions?
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