2024 Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) reveals mixed progress towards SDG-11

2024 Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) reveals mixed progress towards SDG-11

Our latest results evaluate nearly 300 cities across a range of environmental issues, including air quality, urban heat, tree cover, and sustainable transit. The UESI is the only spatially-explicit tool that measures cities’ progress towards SDG-11, which aims to make urban areas to both sustainable and inclusive. Check out our newly revamped website and report!

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DDL Receives NSF Grant to fund Center for AI-driven Integrity and Mitigation

DDL Receives NSF planning grant for CLAIM: the Center for AI-driven Integrity and Mitigation

The Data-Driven EnviroLab has received a planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to bring together collaborators to design a new center aimed at bolstering the integrity of climate commitments in the age of generative AI and its role in proliferating misinformation, disinformation and greenwashing.

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#SmogStripes Reveal Which Cities are Making Progress on Clean Air

#SmogStripes Reveal Which Cities are Making Progress on Clean Air

Air pollution is quietly the deadliest environmental threat to humans. Even with more than half of the world’s population living in cities, air pollution remains an often overlooked and under-prioritized issue. Effectively, the entire global population – 99% – breathes air that exceeds safe pollution limits.

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DDL Receives NASA Grant to Evaluate Heat Disparities

DDL Receives NASA Grant to Evaluate Heat Disparities

A team of interdisciplinary researchers led by DDL Director Angel Hsu has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to evaluate heat stress disparities using satellite remote sensing data, community-collected temperautre data and machine learning techniques.

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ChatNetZero is LIVE

ChatNetZero is LIVE

ChatNetZero (beta), the world’s first AI-powered chatbot dedicated to demystifying climate and net-zero commitments of governments and companies is officially live.

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Climate Action Data 2.0 (CAD 2.0) - CADalog launched

Climate Action Data 2.0 (CAD 2.0) – CADalog launched

The Climate Action Data 2.0 community (CAD 2.0), convened by Data-Driven EnviroLab and OpenEarth Foundation, launch resource portal for climate data analysts, digital technologists, and decisionmakers to understand the role of digital infrastructure and tools for enhancing climate data.

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Global Climate Action 2023: Ambition of Cities, Regions, and Companies

Global Climate Action 2023: Ambition of Cities, Regions, and Companies

The fifth edition of our Global Climate Action of Cities, Regions, and Companies highlights global progress in climate action participation in ambition, showing:
– Cities and regions from the G20 encompassing 26.5% of the global population, and companies with revenues totalling USD 15-27 trillion are pledging quantifiable emissions reduction goals.
– They are ramping up net-zero pledges and the ambition of their reduction targets over time.
– Despite this momentum, efforts still fall short of what’s required for a 1.5C temperature goal.

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Net Zero Stocktake 2023

Net Zero Stocktake 2023

Check out our latest update on our Net Zero Tracker, the Net Zero Stocktake 2023. Key findings from the report include
– Growth in the number of national and subnational net zero targets has slowed, but company net zero target-setting momentum continues at speed.
– The share of large publicly-listed companies with net zero targets has more than doubled in a little over two years, from 417 to 929.
– National government net zero targets underpinned by legislation or policy documents increased from 7% to 75% in the two-and-half years.
– A significant share of subnational and corporate entities still lack any emission reduction target whatsoever.

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#HeatHack2022 Recap: Teams collaborate to use data to hack heat solutions

#HeatHack2022 Recap: Teams collaborate to use data to hack heat solutions

On April 23, nearly 40 community members came together to hack solutions to urban heat in the Research Triangle as part of Data-Driven EnviroLab’s Heat Hack 2022. In partnership with the NC Museum of Life and Science and as part of the NC Science Festival, we opened up datasets, including citizen-collected urban heat data from our 2021 Chapel Hill Heat Watch campaign and remote sensing datasets on land and tree cover.

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TED Countdown

TED Countdown

Cities generate more than 70 percent of global climate emissions. But they’re also among the most vulnerable places to climate change’s impacts. They have the ability to steer our climate future. Check out Angel’s talk featuring Data-Driven Lab’s work in the TED Climate Countdown event.

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Director Angel Hsu Speaks at TED 2018: The Age of Amazement

Director Angel Hsu Speaks at TED 2018: The Age of Amazement

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The Data-Driven EnviroLab uses cutting edge data analytics to create solutions to the world’s environmental problems. The research group is an interdisciplinary collaboration of policy experts, data scientists, visual designers, and interactive programmers. The group was founded and is led by Dr. Angel Hsu and is based at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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Net Zero Stocktake 2024

Net Zero Stocktake 2024

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Regional governments key to next round of national carbon-cutting plans The number of companies, cities, and regions with net zero targets increased, up 23%, 8% and 28%, respectively, since the previous Net Zero Shtocktake in June 2023. However, more than 40% of major...

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