We comprehend the truth of science regarding sources of climate change. How do we come to understand its various implications for our economic way of life? Much work remains.
"Insufficient data and analytical tools to measure and manage climate-related financial risks remain a critical constraint. To undertake climate risk analysis that can inform decision-making across the financial system, regulators and financial institutions need reliable, consistent, and comparable data and projections for climate risks, exposure, sensitivity, vulnerability, and adaptation and resilience. Demand will likely grow for public and open access to climate data, including for primary data collected by the government. Public data will enable market participants to, among other things, compare publicly available disclosure information and sustainability-benchmarked financial products. At the same time, proprietary data and analytical products can introduce innovations that improve climate risk management. A key challenge will be how best to balance the need for transparency through public data on one hand, with the need to foster private innovation through proprietary data, on the other." Executive Summary - Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System
Capitals Coalition
Our ambition is for the value of all capitals to be included in decision-making.
CSRHub
ESG data to drive corporate, financial & consumer decisions.
Earth
Earth - our home planet - is the only place we know of so far that's inhabited by living things (NASA Science Solar System Exploration website).
Earth Economics
Ecosystem services valuation.
ENCORE
(Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a tool to help users better understand and visualise the impact of environmental change on the economy. By focusing on the goods and services that nature provides to enable economic production, it guides users in understanding how businesses across all sectors of the economy potentially depend and impact on nature, and how these potential dependencies and impacts might represent a business risk.
GHGSat
Global emissions monitoring.
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)
Maintains databases regarding threatened species, protected areas and biodiversity areas.
Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services & Tradeoffs (InVEST) - Natural Capital Project
Suite of models used to map and value the goods and services from nature that sustain and fulfill human life.
NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology - NASA's Eyes on the Earth
Application download required - it's definitely worth it!
National Centers for Environmental Information
Responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's (US') treasure of climate and historical weather data and information.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Data Online
Quality controlled daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year climate normals.
The Earth Genome
Translating big environmental data to transform decision making.
US Global Change Research Program
Key federal resources, reports library and set of indicators regarding key aspects and related effects of climate change.
World Population Growth
1 billion (1800); 2.54 billion (1950); 7.79 billion (2020).
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Climate Opinion Maps
Americans’ climate change beliefs, risk perceptions and policy support vary at the state, congressional district, metro area and county levels.