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Climate Data Collaborative
Accelerating Climate Action: Building Connections Between Data and Decision-Makers
Climate decision-makers need authoritative, reliable, trusted, and granular data to take effective action, but critical information is scattered across disconnected systems, institutions, and organizations. Public and private sector leaders often rely on inconsistent data sets that make coordinated climate action difficult. Competing regulatory requirements across different agencies and jurisdictions further complicate efforts to create unified data systems. Many decision-makers are unaware of what information exists that could improve their outcomes, while private companies typically maintain proprietary data with limited opportunities to share insights across sectors.
The Climate Data Collaborative launched in fall 2024 to address these critical gaps by bringing together the right people, organizations, and processes to make climate data work better for decision-makers.
Our Mission
We are building a permanent, independent hub that connects stakeholders across sectors and industries to accelerate climate mitigation decisions. Our work catalyzes collaboration between the private sector, nonprofits, academics, governments, and philanthropic investors to improve both directional information that reveals trends and patterns for strategic decisions, and investor-grade data that supports accountability and financial decision-making. We convene coalitions of thought leaders, support the development of open-source protocols and analytical tools, and create communication resources that demonstrate the value of data coordination and infrastructure while making climate information easier to understand and use.
Our Approach:
The Climate Data Collaborative operates as a hub-and-spoke model. The hub serves as a center for thought leadership and strategy development, convening data and decision-makers across sectors, while advancing communications and coordination to drive data improvement and interoperability. Building out from the hub, the Collaborative established spokes to fill sector-specific gaps or to advance and scale priority activities.
Our work is guided by core principles that shape how we approach climate data challenges:
Current Priority Spokes
Launching a Coalition focused on Sustaining, Advancing, and Scaling GHG Information for Impact (Coming soon)
Supporting the Data Environment to Scale Nature-Based Solutions
Establishing the Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance
Understanding Local Decision-Maker Needs through an Open Data Inventory Portal
Advocating for shared and consistent data standards to support clear, consistent, and reliable data.
Climate data suffers from inconsistent definitions and fragmented systems that hinder effective decision-making. Drawing on our organization's experience with the Financial Data Transparency Act and other data laws, we support building upon existing data standards to create layered, interoperable climate data frameworks that maintain context and usability across regulatory, compliance, and operational applications.
Other upcoming spokes include supporting private sector and industry/corporate climate data needs, methane, agriculture, and carbon dioxide removal.
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Senior Fellow
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Senior Fellow
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