friday lunchtime lecture: what open data do we need for a greener, cleaner world?

8/13/2019 Friday lunchtime lecture: What open data do we need for a greener, cleaner world?

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What open data do we

need for a greenercleaner world?

ODI Lunchtime Lectures

Chris Adams


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Who am I?

developer, product manager, environmentally engaged

nerd, ODI mascot

Chris Adams - @mrchrisadams


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AMEE (CO2 footprint of everything on earth)

Loco2 (make trains as easy and cheap to book as planes)

Worn Again (turn waste streams into new products)

Provenance (know the story of your products)

Cleanweb UK (use your magical web powers for good)


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Cleanweb UKcleanweb.org.uk
http://cleanweb.org.uk/


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Cleanweb innovators use web

technology to fight climatechange, and build a more

sustainable and resilient future


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Q. What open data do we



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A. timely country by country CO2

emissions data, reported as often,

and with the same rigour, as GDP


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Why CO2?


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Lets ask Hans:


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Meanwhile, in theUK


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How are we responding

to such an existentialthreat?


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So far it is only financial downturns that

have had an effect on the emission of

greenhouse gases. The whole ofenvironmental policy hasnt yet had any

such dramatic effect.

Hans Rosling, September 2012


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James (Delingpole) is

correct. The climate hasnot changed.

Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsAny Questions , BBC Radio 4, June 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021438w


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James (Delingpole) is

correct. The climate hasnot changed.

Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsAny Questions , BBC Radio 4, June 2013



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What is there to do?


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Lets ask Hans


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A glimmer of hope forCO2 emissions


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2 2. ,oil providing 22 % and gas 13% This means that governments are currently indicating their countries contain


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oil providing 22 % and gas 13%. This means that governments are currently indicating their countries contain

reserves equivalent to nearly 5 times the carbon budget for the next 40 years. Consequently only one-fifth of the

reserves could be burnt unabated by 2050 if we are to reduce the likelihood of exceeding 2C warming to 20%.

Comparison of the global 2C carbon budget with fossil fuel reserves CO2

emissions potential

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Already burnt

Coal 2oGlobal carbon

budget

2000 - 2050

2011 - 2050

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www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbon
http://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbonhttp://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbonhttp://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbonhttp://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbonhttp://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbon


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Q. What open data do we



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A. timely country by country CO2

emissions data, reported as often,and with the same rigour, as GDP


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I know theres loads of other

datasets to talk, but Ive beentalking too long already - what do

you want to see?


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Thank you!

@[email protected]

@cleanwebuk

friday lunchtime lecture: what open data do we need for a greener, cleaner world?

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