🔎 The CAD 2.0 community conducts research to understand non-state actor (NSA) contributions to global climate action, and how data is used to better understand climate action.
The CAD 2.0 community is actively engaged in research to understand NSA contributions toward global climate mitigation, adaptation, and finance. For example, the NewClimate Institute has conducted deep-dive analyses of corporate net-zero pledges, evaluating their rigor and credibility (NewClimate Institute, 2022). The Data-Driven EnviroLab has developed statistical models to evaluate the mitigation performance of subnational actors (Hsu et al., 2020). We are developing research that explores the interactions of the various actors in the climate data space across various governance levels (such as local, regional, national, and international). With this research, we are contributing to the science-policy academic literature investigating the role of NSAs, such as cities, as areas oflocal policy experimentation. We highlight the key role of NSAs to create bottom-up innovation and scale up to inform national policy development.
These research results inform the selection and design of the DIGS architecture for innovating climate action tracking and lowering transaction costs for monitoring and reporting, improving the institutional performance of the new post-Paris polycentric climate governance system. These contributions create the science-policy interface that examines emerging technology’s impact on climate change governance to make climate data actionable.
NSF Activities Summary
NSF Activities Summary
List of publications
United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Strengthening Climate Data Management and Transparency - how national experiences and new digital technologies can strengthen the transparency efforts of non-state actors.
NASEM. 2022. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making: A Framework Going Forward Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26641.
Schletz, Marco, Axel Constant, Angel Hsu, Simon Schillebeeckx, Roman Beck, and Martin Wainstein. 2023. “Blockchain and Regenerative Finance: Charting a Path Toward Regeneration.” Frontiers in Blockchain. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1165133/full.
Schletz, Marco, Angel Hsu, Brendan Mapes, and Martin Wainstein. 2022. “Nested Climate Accounting for Our Atmospheric Commons —Digital Technologies for Trusted Interoperability Across Fragmented Systems.” Frontiers in Blockchain 4 (January): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.789953.
Beck, Roman, Marco Schletz, Alvise Baggio, and Lorenzo Gentile. 2023. “Distributed Ledger Technology for Collective Environmental Action.” 4th International Joint Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DBB 2023).
Hsu, Angel, Lili Li, Marco Schletz, and Yu Zhitong. 2023. “Chinese Cities as Digital Environmental Governance Innovators: Evidence from Subnational Low-Carbon Plans.” SAGE Journals. Collection.https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.25384/SAGE.c.6722999.v1.
Schletz, Marco; Hus, Angel; Robiou du Pont, Yann; Durkin, Louisa; Yeo, Zhi Yi; Wainstein, Martin.2022. “Climate data need shared and open governance,” Nature, 610(7930), pp. 34–34. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03123-7.
