by Amy Weinfurter | Jan 16, 2020 | Climate
As 2020 rolled in, Twitter users leveraged a trend of capturing #2019InFiveWords to document the urgency of climate action. The UN noted that “#ClimateChange is happening NOW,” citing the forest and bush fires that blazed around the world as one example of how...
by Angel Hsu | Jan 15, 2020 | Climate, Featured
Next week, Jan. 21-24, world leaders will meet in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which is themed “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.” This marks the first time that the annual convening has chosen to focus on...
by Nihit Goyal | Dec 19, 2019 | Climate, Presentations
As a co-author of the Emissions Gap Report 2018, the Data-Driven EnviroLab was invited by the United Nations Science-Policy-Business Forum (UN-SPBF) to present its research on the role of non-state actors in climate change mitigation at the Second Scoping Meeting of...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 1, 2019 | Climate, Data Visualization, Policy
Image from wikipedia.com. Wednesday, Dec. 4 10:00 am – 1:00 pm: CAMDA Preparatory Meetings – Pressing ‘record’ on Climate Action” Ahead of the next Global Stocktake in 2023, monitoring progress towards the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development...
by Willie Khoo | Nov 19, 2019 | Climate, Data
November has been the month of hackathons. Two weeks after co-organizing the Yale-NUS College Datathon, which focused on the Southeast Asian haze crisis, Data-Driven Lab was at It again, this time with the launch of the Open Climate Collabathon in Singapore. The...
by Angel Hsu | Oct 20, 2019 | Big Data, Climate, Data Visualization
The World Economic Forum invited me to present at the Sustainable Development Impact Summit on September 23-24 in New York City, timed with Climate Week and the UN Climate Summit. I was asked to adapt a presentation I gave (“Big Picture on Urban...
