[open-sustainability] Data Explorer Mission on Carbon Data

Thu May 2 01:17:55 UTC 2013

Hi Lucy!

Aiming to deal with more data sources, maybe the E-PRTR[1] would help. The
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) requieres an
annual reporting by Member States which covers the releases to air and
water for 91 substances (including CO2). The register includes information
of about 29000 facilities in 32 countries (EU27, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Switzerland and Serbia). A good point about PRTR is that all
industrial facilities releasing over 100M kg CO2 a year to the air are
requiered to report the exact quantity[2], and the report is filled with
data about the industrial activity, number of workers and so on ...

In order to share and explore this data, I've managed to generate this
Google Fusion Table with CO2 air-releases querying the original MDB file[3]:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1rX5zM85b6rKoG1Ba_9TSSHIpxWiGH0vBnWePND0

Data from 2001-2010 is included. It's a pity the validation of data at
European level is such slow ... Some of the national PRTR sites has
published the 2011 data[4] and 2012 data is about to be released too.

If you find this information interesting for the Data Explorer Mission,
please let me know in which ways can I help.
Cheers

[1]
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/member-states-reporting-art-7-under-the-european-pollutant-release-and-transfer-register-e-prtr-regulation-6
[2] http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/docs/Summary_pollutant.pdf
[3]
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/member-states-reporting-art-7-under-the-european-pollutant-release-and-transfer-register-e-prtr-regulation-6/
[4] http://www.prtr-es.es/informes/descargasEmisiones.aspx

2013/4/9 Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>

> Dear All,
>
> Next week - the School of Data team will pilot a Data Explorer Mission
> with P2PU. This is a way to get people to explore a topic, while at the
> same time building their data skills through experimentation and doing.
>
> In light of Hans Rosling's speech at OKFestival, the topic of this first
> data explorer mission is Carbon data, and we're reverse engineering a
> guardian article published a while back on the topic. and encouraging
> people to see new angles in the data and tell a story with them. For the
> first time, we're piloting our badging system as well...
>
> We're aiming to start quite basic, but the mission can get as ambitious as
> the participants desire as they will all be working towards some kind of
> project.
>
> I wondered whether this would be of interest to anyone from the
> open-sustainability group? Possible ways to get involved could be:
>
> 1) Participating in an expedition group (groups kept to around 10 people),
> so it could be really handy to have people who know the topic and could
> guide or facilitate with topic-specific knowledge
> 2) Writing some guest blog posts on what the juicy / tricky parts in
> carbon data are that people should look out for, which we could feature on
> the School of Data blog
> 3) Being willing to answer topic-specific questions if people have them!
> 4) We're starting with some basic data (
> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdFF1QW00ckYzOG0yWkZqcUhnNDVlSWc&hl=en#gid=1),
> but it would be super useful to know if there are any key or more up-to
> date datasources we should point people to
>
> Every exploration group will be different and we hope to see some great
> projects coming out the other end,
>
> Looking forward to it nd would love to hear the group's thoughts, You can
> reach the team on schoolofdata at okfn.org !
>
> Lucy
>
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