Data and the Fight Against Climate Change
The Dataquest website reported that the ‘Data for Climate Action’ initiative launched in March this year by the UN is an ‘open innovation challenge’ to scientists and researchers from across the world to harness data science and big data from the private sector to fight climate change. The challenge aims to leverage private big data to identify revolutionary new approaches to ‘climate mitigation and adaptation’. The challenge offers researchers an opportunity to gain unprecedented access to national, regional, and global datasets — anonymized and aggregated to protect privacy — robust tools to support their research.
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