Data Updates, October 2024

Data Updates, October 2024

The Systems Change Lab team strives to continually update data, improve functions and add new capabilities to the platform. Continue reading for the latest suite of data updates.

NEW INDICATORS

Cities

• Shift 1: Plan urban land use to reduce emissions and increase climate resilience
  • Annual concentration of fine particulate matter in urban areas (population weighted)
  • Number of cities with land use policies and plans that are enforced fairly, transparently and consistently
  • Number of cities that are net zero aligned
  • Number of cities with a climate action plan
• Shift 2: Increase access to resilient and affordable urban services and infrastructure
  • Percent of urban population without access to safely managed sanitation 
  • Number of cities having granular and disaggregated data on populations and their access to basic infrastructure and services
  • Amount of national funding directed at cities
  • Amount of multilateral development banks’ climate-related finance to urban areas
  • Amount of private sector climate investment in cities

  • Number of cities generating and allocating their own-source revenues

     

DATA UPDATES

Power

• Number of human rights allegations in critical minerals mining - added 2023 data
• Number of jobs in energy efficiency - added 2022 data
• Global investment in battery storage - added 2024 data

• Transport

• Number of human rights allegations in critical minerals mining - added 2023 data

• Technological Carbon Removal

• Scale up technological carbon removal at a rate that puts us on track for multi-gigaton scale removal by 2050 - added 2023 data point and 2035 target to align with the SoCA 2024 tech note
• Number of governments investing in carbon removal research, development and demonstration - added 2023 and 2024 data, as well as country-level data
• Number of governments providing carbon removal deployment support - added 2024 data
• Number of governments providing funding for carbon removal enabling infrastructure - added 2024 data
• Number of companies purchasing carbon removal credits - added new 2023 data and revised historical data
• Total corporate spending on carbon removal credits - added 2023 data
• Number of companies considering equity and sustainability in their carbon removal investments - added 2024 data

• Industry

• Carbon intensity per ton of steel – added data from 2007-2010 and 2021-2022, updated acceleration factor and projection.
• Number of governments with published hydrogen strategies - revised historical data
• Number of countries in the Zero Routine Flaring Initiative - revised historical data
• Number of countries committed to the Global Methane Pledge - added 2024 data
• Number of companies in the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 - added 2024 data