June 13, 2024
It organises public data from a wide range of reliable sources by taking on the task of downloading, cleaning, normalising, and joining data, ranging from government census bureaux to organisations like the United Nations. It also provides organisations with the ability to combine their own private data with the public data available in Data Commons.
With recent advances in AI, accessing data has become more intuitive. Instead of complex database queries and the need to know how to code, the user can ask questions in their own natural language, allowing AI to unlock and share the knowledge it contains.
The solution to many of the world’s big challenges — climate change, increasing inequities, and health epidemics — will need strong data foundations, a task made complex by the need to interpret information from diverse, siloed sources.
The Climate Finance Files are a detailed account of spending on climate change, supported by Data Commons.
Climate finance reporting can be confusing, slow, and imprecise; with data reported to organisations like UNFCCC and OECD sometimes incomplete and misleading. This creates a substantial level of uncertainty regarding how much climate finance has been committed, much less delivered.
The Climate Finance Files, publicly available on Data Commons, represent months of work by One.org, finding, cleaning, and standardising the data to make it usable and easy to understand. The insights extracted showed how much governments and international institutions are actually spending to support climate-vulnerable countries.
Accurate climate finance tracking is paramount to ensuring climate-vulnerable countries get the support they need, and bad data mitigates the ability to hold providers accountable for their climate pledges and responsibilities. The Climate Finance Files seeks to address this through transparent, accurate, and comparable climate finance data — publicly accessible on Data Commons so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.
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