Links to Data

World Economic Data

• Trading Economics. A privately owned resource dedicated to providing economic and trade data.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• UN Greenhouse data. Downloadable spreadsheets for worldwide emissions.
• IEA Greenhouse data. Another lengthy source (in PDF) about worldwide emissions.
• U.S. Greenhouse inventory. Detailed source about U.S. emissions by the EPA.
• U.S. Energy Information Administration. Very nicely laid out source of emissions data.
• Global carbon flow. Trade separates consumption from production: Where are the goods consumed that were produced with emissions elsewhere?
• CDIAC. The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) is the primary climate-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
• Data on CO2 "export" via the supply chain from Stanford University.

World Bank, Human Development and Climate Change

• Worldbank open data. A compendium of global data on everything ranging from human development to health and economic activity.
• Human development reports. Accessible via Google Public Data Explorer and also as e-book
• World Bank on Climate Change. This portal is a central hub of information, data and reports about climate change around the world.

OECD

• The OECD provides statistics on pretty much everything. An amazing resource.

Green Facts

• Greenfacts.org. Provides a compendium of literature and data relevant to environmental and energy issues.

Disasters and Vulnerability

• Annual disaster data base. Published by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. which is located within the School of Public Health of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Brussels.
• A cross country comparison of vulnerability published by the Center for Global Development.

Renewable Energy Investment

• The Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative, which is supported by the UNEP and co-published with Bloomberg, provides data on global investment trends in renewable energy.

Energy Data

• European Energy Commission. Statistics and energy plans.

General Data Archive

• Gapminder provides access to a host of interesting data.