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  • Open Up Climate Data: Using Open Data to Advance Climate Action
  • Acknowledgements
  • Background: Open Up Guides
  • Introduction
    • Target Audiences
    • Open Data Defined
    • From Open Data to Impact
    • How the Guide Was Developed
    • Next steps
  • Key Components of an Open Climate-Relevant Data System
  • Existing public repositories of climatic and climate-relevant data
    • World Bank’s Climate Change Knowledge Portal
    • IPCC’s Data Distribution Centre
    • UN’s Global Risk Data Platform
    • European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative
    • Global Climate Observing System
    • UNFCCC
    • FAOSTAT
    • PREPdata
    • National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Climate Data Guide
  • What’s missing?
  • Other guides for communicating climate-relevant information
  • Relevant data types
    • Emissions Related Data
    • Agricultural Data
    • Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Data
    • Electricity Data
    • Stationary Energy Data (other than electricity)
    • Transport Data
    • Waste Data
    • Natural Hazards and Impacts Data
    • Socioeconomic Data
    • Climate Finance Data
  • Conclusions
  • Collaborators
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  1. Introduction

Open Data Defined

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In the past decade, open data has garnered increasing attention and grown into a global movement. The International Open Data Charter defines open data as digital data that is published with the technical and legal characteristics to be “.” The global open data movement brings together a variety of actors working to realize open data’s potential to “.”

Of course, greater availability of and access to data cannot, on their own, bring about these outcomes. Government, civil society, and the private sector must have the capacity to effectively use this data to design, implement, advocate for, and monitor climate actions. It also requires that citizens have adequate opportunities to engage in the relevant decision-making processes. Still, improving access to key, high-quality data is a cornerstone of cross-sectoral, coordinated action to tackle climate change.

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