by Amy Weinfurter | May 30, 2017 | Climate, Data
Despite the urgency of climate change, keeping track of global adaptation efforts has proven tricky. Adaptation means different things in different places: in Rotterdam, the creation of parks that can absorb larger, more frequent floods; in Los Angeles, retrofitting...
by Amy Weinfurter | May 19, 2017 | Climate, Groundswell
Across 2017 and 2018, a series of events aims to track and speed the world’s progress towards the goals of the historic Paris Climate Agreement. During the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue, for instance, national governments will take stock of their collective progress...
by Amy Weinfurter | Apr 20, 2017 | Climate
Between 2005 and 2013, the size of the digital universe – the space held by the digital information created, replicated, and consumed in a single year – grew by a factor of 33. Big data’s footprint has grown accordingly, fed by data streams that convey...
by Amy Weinfurter | Mar 24, 2017 | Climate, Data, Data Visualization
“R is like piano – you have to practice the scales before you jump into playing Jimi Hendrix.” These words of advice, from Data-Driven Research Assistant and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies masters student Matt Moroney, felt particularly right for...
by Ross Rauber | Feb 1, 2017 | Climate
By Ross Rauber and Aadit Gupta The 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22)—held to begin implementing the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement—arrived in the shadow of two major events. The first was its landmark predecessor, the Paris Climate Agreement, at which...
by Amy Weinfurter | Dec 2, 2016 | Climate, Groundswell
Cities, regions, companies, investors and civil society organizations made headlines last year, coming forward in record numbers to commit to climate action alongside national leaders at the Paris Climate Conference. This November, the international community gathered...
