Solving climate data deserts on the municipal level: Climate Diaries

Date

3:20 pm—3:40 pm · June 10, 2025

Room

Herten Aas / Livestreamed

Accessing, understanding, and utilising municipal-level data related to climate governance in Brazil presents significant challenges. Hear how six organisations with expertise in climate journalism, transparency, and open data made a coalition to build an open source platform that collects, processes, and shares local climate-related official acts from 504 cities (and counting!), making them easily accessible and allowing for customised monitoring.

Challenges include: data being fragmented across municipalities, reporting lacking standardization, and difficulties connecting this information to actionable climate strategies. These issues hinder efforts to foster accountability and progress, while the global implications of local climate actions remain critical.

The platform, Diários do Clima (Climate Diaries), is based upon the data openly provided by Querido Diário (Dear Diary).

In this presentation, Giulio aims to share the project’s relevance, how it was made, how they are engaging journalists to use it and produce articles, and its potential for monitoring climate change policies locally. The presentation will cover the following topics:

– Local climate policies and data deserts (4 min)
– Climate Diaries: how to open climate official acts (7 min)
– Engaging journalists to monitor the data (4 min)
– Next approaches for features and engagement (2 min)
– Q&A (3 min)