climateboard what actually drives climate change

About & sources

Climateboard shows what actually drives climate change. It is a data visualization tool. Code is open source. Data remains the property of its publishers, under the licenses listed below.

Every figure on the dashboard links to the dataset it came from. To re-verify a number, open the corresponding file in data/ of the source repository — each file stores its values next to the exact source, raw URL, reference period, and fetch date.

Sources

Our World in Data — CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions dataset

Our World in Data (combining Global Carbon Project, EIA, UN population data)

License: CC-BY 4.0 · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-27

Our World in Data — Greenhouse gas emissions by sector

Our World in Data, based on Climate Watch / CAIT (World Resources Institute)

License: CC-BY 4.0 · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-27

Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide — Mauna Loa monthly means

NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory

License: Public domain (US Government) · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-27

Global annual plastics production (Our World in Data, based on Geyer et al.)

Our World in Data

License: CC-BY 4.0 · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-27

HadCRUT.5.0.2.0 global annual mean surface temperature anomalies (Met Office Hadley Centre / CRU, Morice et al. 2021)

Met Office Hadley Centre

License: Open Government Licence v3 · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-27

IPCC AR6 Working Group I, Summary for Policymakers, Figure SPM.2 (underlying data)

IPCC / CEDA (Szopa et al., 2021)

License: CC-BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.5285/c1eb6dad1598427f8f9f3eae346ece2f · Data: raw file · fetched 2026-07-24

Global Methane Assessment (UNEP & Climate and Clean Air Coalition, 2021)

United Nations Environment Programme

License: UNEP report, cited with attribution · fetched 2026-07-24

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025 (Forster et al., 2026, Earth System Science Data 18, 3889)

Copernicus / ESSD

License: CC-BY 4.0 · fetched 2026-07-24

WMO State of the Global Climate 2024

World Meteorological Organization

License: WMO, cited with attribution · fetched 2026-07-24

Attribution

Figures derived from Our World in Data are published under CC-BY 4.0 — credit is shown on every chart as required. IPCC AR6 figure data (via CEDA) is CC-BY 4.0. NOAA data is in the public domain. HadCRUT5 is published under the Open Government Licence v3.