Datasets

Find data on climate, forests, energy and disaster risk. Each entry links to its provider and states available access information.

22 datasets
World Resources Institute

WRI’s forest-monitoring platform, renamed from Global Forest Watch: free, near-real-time deforestation alerts and satellite tree-cover-change data on an interactive map, with an open data portal.

Forests & natureAgriculture & landGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Climate Watch

External
WRI

Open emissions, NDC and pathway data across countries and sectors.

Cross-cuttingClimate financeGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Our World in Data

External
Global Change Data Lab / Oxford

Long-run, fully sourced CO₂, greenhouse-gas and energy datasets with downloadable charts and a clean public API.

Cross-cuttingEnergyGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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ECMWF (EU)

Reanalysis and climate-projection data (ERA5 and more) with a programmatic toolbox, free with registration.

Cross-cuttingAdaptation & resilienceWaterGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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NASA Earthdata

External
NASA

The open gateway to NASA Earth-observation data: land, atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere products with full API access.

Cross-cuttingWaterAgriculture & landGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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World Bank

The World Bank's portal for historical and projected climate data, vulnerabilities and impacts, by country, subnational area and watershed, with seasonal forecasts.

Adaptation & resilienceCross-cuttingGlobal SouthOpen

Well corroborated

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FAOSTAT

External
FAO

Free food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and every FAO regional grouping, from 1961 to the most recent year.

Agriculture & landGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Global Carbon Project

The authoritative annual global carbon budget: fossil and land-use CO₂ emissions, sources and sinks, explorable by country.

Cross-cuttingEnergyGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Berkeley Carbon Trading Project

A meta-database consolidating projects, issuances and retirements across six major carbon registries, openly licensed and regularly versioned.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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CarbonPlan

An open, harmonized database of offset projects, issuances and retirements across seven registries, with free downloads. CarbonPlan has paused updates while it resolves data-access issues.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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World Bank, IETA & Singapore

A metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonises carbon-credit data from the major project registries, with a free public data dashboard.

Carbon marketsGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Climate TRACE

External
Climate TRACE coalition

Independent, facility-level greenhouse-gas emissions inventory built from satellites and AI, covering hundreds of millions of sources.

EnergyCross-cuttingExtractives & mineralsGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Global Energy Monitor

Asset-level trackers for power plants, coal, gas, steel and more, mapping the global energy system project by project.

EnergyExtractives & mineralsGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Resource Watch

External
WRI

Hundreds of curated datasets on the planet and people in one mapping platform, spanning food, water, energy, forests and cities.

Cross-cuttingWaterForests & natureGlobalOpen

Corroborated

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CRED, UCLouvain

The reference database of mass disasters since 1900: occurrence, deaths and economic losses, central to climate-risk and loss-and-damage work.

Adaptation & resilienceGlobalFree

Well corroborated

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Carbon Brief

An interactive map of the climate-research literature: 1.8 million publications linked by 40 million citations, plus the Cosmos 500 rankings of the most-cited authors, papers and institutions.

Cross-cuttingGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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International Renewable Energy Agency

IRENA’s online query tool for renewable power capacity and generation statistics by country and technology.

EnergyGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Ember

A free interactive dataset of electricity generation, demand, capacity and emissions for 215 countries, with 2025 yearly data covering 91 countries representing about 93 percent of global electricity demand.

EnergyGlobalOpen

Well corroborated

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Global Solar Atlas

External
World Bank / ESMAP, with Solargis

A free World Bank Group map of solar resource and photovoltaic power potential for any location, with a simple electricity-output calculation for governments, developers and the public.

EnergyGlobal SouthOpen

Well corroborated

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Global Wind Atlas

External
World Bank / ESMAP, with DTU

A free web application that helps policymakers, planners and investors find high-wind areas for wind power almost anywhere in the world and run preliminary calculations.

EnergyGlobal SouthOpen

Well corroborated

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ThinkHazard!

External
World Bank / GFDRR

A World Bank GFDRR tool screening any project area for 11 natural hazards, among them river, urban and coastal flood, cyclone, water scarcity, extreme heat, wildfire and landslide.

Adaptation & resilienceWaterGlobal SouthOpen

Well corroborated

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