by Damon Lim Wei Da | May 21, 2026 | Climate, Data, Sustainability
A reality check for Scope 2 accounting: Balancing integrity with feasibility DDL provides input to the GHG Protocol Scope 2 revisions By Katherine Burley Farr and Angel Hsu At the end of January, Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) submitted a response to the Greenhouse Gas...
by Andrew Martin | Mar 18, 2026 | Climate, Data, Data Visualization, Featured
5 years ago, we released ClimActor, the largest harmonized global dataset of more than 10,000 subnational entities participating in climate policy networks like the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, C40 Cities for Climate Leadership, ICLEI Local...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 16, 2025 | Climate, Conferences, Featured, Global Climate Action, UNFCCC
On 15 December 2025, the CAMDA community met around a familiar climate challenge: we have no shortage of initiatives, coalitions, and commitments, but we still struggle to measure what they deliver, compare progress across efforts, and translate activity into a clear...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 30, 2025 | Climate, Conferences, Featured, Global Climate Action
At the 2025 TED Countdown Nairobi event, I had the opportunity to join the first Debatable event, where six activists, scientists, business and finance representatives took sides to debate the motion: “1.5 may be dead, but the goal should remain.” We were...
by Data-Driven Lab | Mar 17, 2025 | China, Climate, Featured, Global Climate Action
The following blog post was written by Angel Hsu, Director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab and Associate Professor at UNC. In this piece, she delves into the potential for future climate action in both China and the U.S. to overcome the setbacks caused by the current...
by Nicholas Pell | Jan 21, 2025 | Climate, Conferences, Featured, UNFCCC
In November, UNC-Chapel Hill selected senior Margot Francini and fellow junior Maanya Rajesh to join 50,000+ attendees, including members of the DDL team, at the United Nations 29th Conference of Parties, COP-29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. After spending Week 1 of the...
