energy-access-climate

analysis on public data re: climate, energy access, sustainable development

DATA SOURCES

S&P Global Rating (per year) - sovereign credit rating

Need to download this from the Bloomberg terminal

Resource Watch - GHG emissions by country and sector

This is downscaled data estimated at the sector level for different countries. This is historical emissions. Compiled by World Resource Institute (WRI). Access at https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore/cli008-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-by-Country-and-Sector-Full-Longform?section=Discover&selectedCollection=&zoom=12.318006417020328&lat=32.050768465276526&lng=148.31273949891605&pitch=0&bearing=0&basemap=dark&labels=light&layers=%255B%257B%2522dataset%2522%253A%2522a290675c-9528-4a51-8201-f6c2d7848744%2522%252C%2522opacity%2522%253A1%252C%2522layer%2522%253A%2522b000b754-3b2f-4b6a-a3c4-ff7ef4c882ff%2522%257D%255D&aoi=&page=1&sort=most-viewed&sortDirection=-1

Suggested citations for data:

(1) CAIT Climate Data Explorer. 2020. Country Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Available online at: http://cait.wri.org. Accessed through Resource Watch, (date). www.resourcewatch.org.

(2) FAO. 2018. FAOSTAT Emissions Database. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Available online at: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Accessed through Resource Watch, (date). www.resourcewatch.org.

(3) OECD/IEA. 2018. "CO₂ Emissions From Fuel Production." Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development / International Energy Agency. Available online at: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/co2-emissions-from-fuel-combustion-2018_co2_fuel-2018-en. Accessed through Resource Watch, (date). www.resourcewatch.org.

Energydata.info (compendium of data sources on energy systems, electricity and emissions) compiled by UN, accessible here https://energydata.info/ (includes Global Solar Atlas)

LITERATURE FOR IDEA FORMATION

Adaptation in SSP modelling - https://rdcu.be/dhiPM Mitigation (costs across globe) - https://seemajayachandran.com/JEP_Act_Globally.pdf

Resources for coding (to add to the cheat sheets folder)

1. How to do linear regressions in R - https://bookdown.org/jimr1603/Intermediate_R_-_R_for_Survey_Analysis/
2. Repo containing R Cheat sheets so you can learn other packages - https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/tree/main