A new paper in Climate Policy uses quantitative text analysis to explore how national governments incorporate city, region, company & civil society climate action into their international climate commitments.

The Adaptation Tracking Collaborative, which includes Data-Driven Lab Director Angel Hsu, put forward a new framework for tracking adaptation in Nature Climate Change. Their proposal builds on past discussions of strategies to innovate assessment, during a workshop held by the Collaborative and Yale-NUS College.

Data-Driven Director Angel Hsu, Research Associate Amy Weinfurter, and Student Research Assistant Yaolin Zhang contributed to Chapter 23 of the sixth Global Environmental Outlook, which explores how bottom-up efforts can help reach the Sustainable Development Goals.

A new Nature Climate Change Perspectives piece outlines ways to better account for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate action by local governments, the private sector, and civil society.

The Sept. 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, CA engaged more than 5,000 cities, states, regions, companies, investors and civil society organizations on climate change. Hundreds of commitments were made, but does it add up to something beyond action already pledged?

Can blockchains be used to tackle climate change? A ‘Design Sprint’ brought blockchain experts and enthusiasts together at the Alan Turing Institute in London, to brainstorm the possibilities.