Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
DDL@COP31: Focus on Tracking Subnational and Non-State Climate Action
The COP-31 United Nations Climate Conference will take place Nov. 9-20 in Antalya, Turkiye. The Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) will be convening and involved in a number of events related to non-state and subnational climate action, transparency and tracking, and AI....
Six UNC Students to attend COP31 in Türkiye
The world’s premier climate policy event, the Conference of the Parties (COP), is organized annually by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). COP brings together delegates from almost 200 nations, along with thousands of...
DDL Data Center Policy Explorer provides a new look at AI infrastructure development across the U.S.
The U.S. Data Center Policy Explorer offers the public, policymakers, and researchers an accessible overview of data center development and the evolving policy landscape surrounding data centers in the United States. As artificial intelligence companies build...
Welcome Yuan Fang, PhD, to the Data-Driven EnviroLab Team!
Dr. Yuan Fang recently joined Data-Driven EnviroLab as a Post-doctoral Researcher. Dr. Fang completed her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where her research bridged industrial organization, environmental and energy economics, and policy...
Dr. Sarah Berk Attends ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for Earth Observation
Dr. Sarah Berk recently represented Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) at the 2nd ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for Earth Observation at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In this blog post, Dr. Berk shares her experience at the...
A reality check for Scope 2 accounting: Balancing integrity with feasibility
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...
Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) Celebrates 10 years of Impact
This year, Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) celebrated 10 years of transforming environmental data into action. Dr. Angel Hsu founded DDL during her joint appointment as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and adjunct at the...
Creating ClimActor 2.0: Wrestling Borders, Bureaucracy, and Endless Edge Cases
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...
AGU25 in New Orleans: Advancing Urban Climate Research
This December, I headed to New Orleans to attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, one of the largest international conferences for Earth and space sciences. Presenting Urban Heat Research Tuesday morning began with presenting “Development of an...
NASA EJ Community Advisory Board and Local Government Meeting: Advancing Heat Equity in Durham
The following blog was written by Sarah Berk, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Data-Driven EnviroLab. A key part of the project “Exploring Disparities and Solutions to U.S. Urban Heat Stress and Climate Justice” is recognising the importance of integrating...
