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    For our 14th February, 2014 lecture… Climate change is global, yet solving the challenges are often local and bound up in policy making, industrial, organisational and personal decision making. Co-founder of Cleanweb UK and entrepreneur Chris Adams explained the role can open data play in ensuring a cleaner world, and what data sets still need to be opened up. Audio from the lecture can be found here - https://soundcloud.com/theodi/odi-fridays-what-open-data-do

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    For our 14th February, 2014 lecture… Climate change is global, yet solving the challenges are often local and bound up in policy making, industrial, organisational and personal decision making. Co-founder of Cleanweb UK and entrepreneur Chris Adams explained the role can open data play in ensuring a cleaner world, and what data sets still need to be opened up. Audio from the lecture can be found here - https://soundcloud.com/theodi/odi-fridays-what-open-data-do

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    What open data do we need for a greener cleaner world?

    ODI Lunchtime Lectures Chris Adams

    Who am I?
    Chris Adams - @mrchrisadams
    developer, product manager, environmentally engaged nerd, ODI mascot

    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)

    Cleanweb UK!
    !

    cleanweb.org.uk

    Cleanweb innovators use web technology to ght climate change, and build a more sustainable and resilient future

    Q. What open data do we need for a greener cleaner world?

    A. timely country by country CO2 emissions data, reported as often, and with the same rigour, as GDP

    Why CO2?

    Lets ask Hans:

    Meanwhile, in the UK

    How are we responding to such an existential threat?

    So far it is only nancial downturns that have had an effect on the emission of greenhouse gases. The whole of environmental policy hasnt yet had any such dramatic effect.
    Hans Rosling, September 2012

    James (Delingpole) is correct. The climate has not changed.


    Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs! Any Questions , BBC Radio 4, June 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021438w

    James (Delingpole) is correct. The climate has not changed.


    Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs! Any Questions , BBC Radio 4, June 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021438w

    What is there to do?

    Lets ask Hans

    A glimmer of hope for CO2 emissions

    The total CO2 potential of the earths proven reserves comes to 2795 GtCO2. 65% of this is from coal, with 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-fth 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
    Fig.1
    3000

    Gl o
    Gas Oil

    ba

    2500

    lf
    os
    sil

    GtCO2

    2000

    eserves fuel r

    1500

    1000 886 565 500

    Coal
    Already burnt

    2000 - 2050 2011 - 2050

    Global carbon budget

    2o

    Remaining
    0

    6 |

    www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbon

    Q. What open data do we need for a greener cleaner world?

    A. timely country by country CO2 emissions data, reported as often, and with the same rigour, as GDP

    I know theres loads of other datasets to talk, but Ive been talking too long already - what do you want to see?

    Thank you!
    @mrchrisadams chris@productscience.co.uk
    !

    @cleanwebuk

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