Accelerating Climate Action: Building Connections Between Data and Decision-Makers

In the fall of 2024, the Data Foundation launched the Climate Data Collaborative to make climate and environmental data work better for decision-makers across sectors. 

Our vision is a federated and interoperable data ecosystem where decision-makers have the data needed to drive markets, mitigation, conservation, finance and compliance—one where public agencies provide foundational data and private actors are motivated to contribute. 

The Climate Data Collaborative is led by Executive Director Ryan Alexander and Senior Advisor Sonia Wang, with support from a growing bench of scientific, technical, and policy experts who bring decades of combined experience in greenhouse gas measurement, modeling, and standards development as well as environmental economics. The team’s broad efforts to improve the quality, accessibility, and usefulness of climate and environmental data are driven by the following initiatives.