hello Maya, hi everyone, as to what to do with open data you might be interested in studying this site which give a climate preview for Southern Germany on a 10x10km scale which is intended - if I got this correctly - to boost grassroots activism, among other things http://www.klimafolgenonline.com
it seems to combine Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) with Integrated Assessment Models on Energy-Economy-Climate-Agriculture - in this example they are using the RCP 8.5-Scenario (my translation summary of the "Szenarium" subpage) cheers, Claudia [email protected] ---------- Original Message ----------- From:Maya Forstater <[email protected]> To:"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent:Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:16:48 +0000 Subject:[okfn-discuss] Introduction and an idea > Hi > > I just wanted to introduce myself, before hopefully meeting some of you > tonight at the Cleanweb drinks. > > I am Maya Forstater. An independent consultant. Particularly concerned > with open data on corporate environmental impacts, but also working on > open government issues with the Transparency and Accountability initiative. > > I am more of an information user than a data wrangler, but i am hatching > an open data idea, which i aim to make happen in 2013, and I would > appreciate any thoughts, offers to collaborate or pointers in the right > direction. > > You can read the full outline here (with links etc...) > http://hiyamaya.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/a-little-tweak-to-the-broken- > carbon-dashboard > > But basically the idea is to try to make the data that we have on > corporate carbon emissions (which is getting better all the time) more > meaningful, useful and accessible. > > A few companies have already adopted a way to report emissions in the > context of a global carbon budget; relating the proportion of the global > emission budget they use each year to the proportion of global value > creation they provide. > > This methodology is widely praised for tying individual company emission > data to the global challenge and to economic performance. However it has > not been widely adopted, because companies say it is too hard to compile > and interpret. In fact the technical difficulties of calculating and > communicating carbon stabilisation intensity measures are not > insurmountable. > > The underlying data to calculate comparable emission intensity pathways > for other companies and industries is in the public domian, but largely > lock into paper and pdf carbon disclosure reports rather than an > accessible data stream. If this data was converted into a machine readable > format it could be combined with with financial data to create live charts > which put company and investor performance into context using this > methodology. > > The idea of this experiment, then is to unlock carbon emission data and > create a rich interactive visualisation which enables users to put it into > context. > > Happy to chat more about it on here or in the pub! > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Phone: +44 (0) 7966676465 > Blog: www.hiyamaya.wordpress.com > Twitter: MForstater > > Sent from my iPhone ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
