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Climate Action at UC San Diego and Beyond: Open Access Web Resources

US and International Government Websites

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information
- Climate Data Online: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web
- Quick links to NOAA climate and weather datasets and resources, by topic: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links
- NOAA Statistical information, including temperature, precipitation, and drought: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/statistical-weather-and-climate-information
- NOAA climate.gov site: https://www.climate.gov/maps-data
National weather service: https://www.weather.gov/phi/localclimate.html
Climate data from the U.S.'s data.gov, including climate-related data to human health, transportation, etc: https://www.data.gov/climate/
NASA climate data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) : https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators
World Bank (some interesting carbon data in here): https://data.worldbank.org/topic/19
Not necessarily for raw data, but a lot of statistics and some great visuals from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions
International Monetary Fund Climate Change Indicators Dashboard
OECD > Energy

Artistic and Humanist Explorations and Approaches to Addressing Climate Change

Arts & climate: https://artistsandclimatechange.com/resources/
Climate Science Alliance (CA Wildlife Foundation) climate art shows, climate artists, and climate art fellowship: https://www.climatesciencealliance.org/building-community
Ecological and Social Change through the Arts: https://earthcelebrations.com/about-earth-celebrations/
Environmental Art in unusual places: http://humannatureshow.com/
Publications and Research on climate story telling: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/research
Combining science data and subjective responses: http://www.livingdata.net.au/content/publications/publications.php
The Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network’s Project Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptations to Climate Change

UN Websites and Databases

UN Climate Action Page
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Food and Agriculture Association
UN Population Fund
UN Development Programs Project Website
UN Economic and Social Council
UN Environmental Program (UNEP)
UN Habitat
Human Development Index
Gender and Land Rights Database
UN Refugee Agency
State of the Global Climate 2020
2021 Global Report on Food Crises
Ecosystem Restoration Playbook: A practical guide to healing the planet
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Global Forest Goals Report 2021
Displaced on the Frontlines of Climate Change
System for earth observations, data access, processing & analysis for land monitoring (SEPAL)
Uses sound data on forests and land-use to generate data to reduce deforestation and degradation and generate restoration, which will help mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss.