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Climate Interactive

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Climate Interactive creates and shares scientifically grounded climate simulators and interactive tools that help users explore climate solutions, energy policy impacts and systems thinking. It supports workshops, role-playing games and training to inform effective, equitable climate action worldwide, with tools like En-ROADS and C-ROADS widely used by educators and policymakers.
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1 research item

Orbae

AdAstra Sustainability
Orbae is an open-data platform by AdAstra Sustainability that quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural land-use change. It provides high-resolution, spatially explicit data to assess land conversion impacts across crops, regions and supply chains, supporting climate risk analysis, reporting and sustainable finance decision-making.
Online tool/database

OS-Climate: Transition Analysis

OS-Climate (Open Source Climate)
OS-Climate Transition Analysis is an open-source scenario-modelling tool that simulates economic, energy and climate system interactions. It supports assessment of transition risks, technology pathways and investment trade-offs under alternative decarbonisation scenarios for financial and strategic analysis.
Online tool/database

IPCC Shared Economic Pathways (SPPs)

Our World in Data
An interactive data explorer for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) used in IPCC climate modelling, allowing comparison of socioeconomic and emissions trajectories under different future scenarios. It presents scenario data on population, economy, energy and related variables to analyse possible climate outcomes.
Online tool/database

IEA Global Energy and Climate Model

International Energy Agency (IEA)
The Global Energy and Climate Model is an integrated analytical tool developed by the International Energy Agency to assess long-term global energy systems. It supports scenario analysis of energy demand, supply, investment and emissions under different policy and technology pathways.
Online tool/database

Global Carbon Atlas

Global Carbon Project
GlobalCarbonAtlas.org is an online platform for exploring, visualising and downloading up-to-date global and regional carbon flux and emissions data from human activities and natural processes, supporting analysis of CO₂, methane and nitrous oxide trends across countries and sectors.
Online tool/database

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Near Real-Time Observational Data (Level 1) provides rapidly delivered atmospheric and ecosystem measurements, typically within 24 hours. Data undergo automated quality control only and are released as growing time series. Suitable for monitoring and exploratory analysis, not final scientific assessment.
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The twin transition century

The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
This paper argues that Europe’s green transition depends on aligning digital transformation with sustainability goals. It outlines how digital research can both reduce its own environmental footprint and enable climate action, calling for long-term, interdisciplinary research investment and coordinated EU policy.
Research
18 September 2023

New approaches and challenges regarding trade, climate action, and the WTO

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The report analyses how WTO trade rules can support climate action. It assesses tools such as border carbon adjustments, standards, subsidies and technology policy, identifying legal gaps, development impacts and the need for coordinated reforms to align multilateral trade governance with climate objectives.
Research
18 December 2024

Assessing the credibility of a company’s transition plan: framework and guidance

World Benchmarking Alliance
This report presents a harmonised framework to assess the credibility of corporate climate transition plans. It defines core plan elements, assessment principles, and a four-step process to evaluate ambition, feasibility, consistency, governance, and financial alignment with Paris-aligned decarbonisation pathways.
Research
1 September 2024

Doing business within planetary boundaries

The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
This report argues that corporate reporting must incorporate absolute, location-specific environmental impacts aligned with planetary boundaries. It proposes science-based disclosures and the Earth System Impact score to improve assessment of cumulative nature-related risks, support credible investment decisions, and enhance comparability beyond carbon-focused metrics.
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5 November 2024

Defining climate finance justice: Critical geographies of justice amid financialized climate action

The article defines “climate finance justice” as a framework for analysing how financialised climate action shapes equity, power, and outcomes. It critiques climate finance mechanisms, including UNFCCC processes and voluntary carbon markets, and argues for justice-centred approaches that address historical responsibility, governance, and uneven impacts.
Research
29 October 2024

China coal action plan offers roadmap for coal phase-out

Asia Research & Engagement (ARE)
The report analyses China’s first quantitative coal power decarbonisation plan, outlining emissions-reduction targets to 2027 via co-firing and carbon capture. It finds retrofitted coal increasingly uncompetitive versus renewables with storage, raising risks for new coal investments and strengthening the case for no-new-coal commitments.
Research
27 September 2024

Global Carbon Project

Scientific Bodies
Global Carbon Project (GCP) is an international scientific research organisation advancing understanding of the global carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions. It produces authoritative datasets, annual Global Carbon Budget reports, and peer-reviewed research used by governments, academics and climate policy experts worldwide to support climate science, mitigation planning and decision-making.
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2 research items

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

Scientific Bodies
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a European research infrastructure providing long-term, high-precision observations of greenhouse gases. ICOS delivers open, standardised climate and carbon cycle data through its Carbon Portal, supporting climate science, modelling, and evidence-based policy across Europe and neighbouring regions.
Organisation
1 research item

Germanwatch

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Germanwatch is an independent development, environmental and human rights non-governmental organisation advocating sustainable global development based on social equity, ecological protection and economic stability. It influences climate, trade and corporate policy, produces research and indices like the Climate Change Performance Index, and promotes fair, equitable climate action globally.
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