Research Guides: ENVS 131B: Political Economy of Global Climate Governance: Data & Statistics

Data & Statistics Sites

AidData
AidData is an international development research lab at the College of William and Mary (USA) that produces datasets and policy reports. Current projects include mapping aid flows, overseas investments, and foreign policy influence of major world powers such as China, Russia and the United States.
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AidData's GeoQuery tool enables individuals and organizations of all skill levels to freely find and aggregate satellite, economic, health, aid, conflict, and other spatial data into a single, simple-to-use file compatible with Microsoft Excel and other common software.
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP): Cities, States and Regions Open Data Portal
Climate change and sustainability data from more than 1,200 city, state and regional governments.
Climate Watch
Open data, visualizations and analysis to help policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders gather insights on countries' climate progress.
Data and Statistics | International Energy Agency
Access global energy data. Site includes energy statistics on supply and demand, energy prices, public RD&D and measures of energy efficiency, with other measures in development.
IMF Data | International Monetary Fund
IMF makes a variety of databases and reports available on their website, including the Climate Change Indicators Dashboard, World Economic Outlook (WEO) database, International Financial Statistics (IFS), and more.
OECD.Stat
The OECD's data warehouse, containing economic and social data from member countries as well as emerging economies. Build your own tables and extract data for analysis from across the OECD's many databases.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) is an intragovernmental organization whose members are committed to democratic government and the market economy, and seek to promote policies that will promote the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
World Inequality Database
A database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries. A product of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics.

United Nations

CEPALSTAT
CEPALSTAT is the gateway to all the statistical information of Latin America and the Caribbean countries collected, systematized and published by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The UN body for assessing the science related to climate change.
Human Development Data | UNDP
Statistics on international development, including gender, health, and poverty, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Includes country profiles.

World Bank

Climate Change Knowledge Portal | World Bank
Global data on historical and future climate vulnerabilities and impacts.
DataBank | World Bank
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics, including the World Development Indicators; health, nutrition, and population statistics; and education statistics.

Library Resources

EIU CountryData
Comprehensive country-by-country data set contains over 300 key economic indicators for a country, with data ranging from 1980 to 2050. CountryData shows a country's economic health and prospects vital to financial models.
National climate funds: a new dataset on national financing vehicles for climate change - Bhandary
From Climate Policy, vol. 22, issue 3.

Library Databases

Asia-Studies Full-text Online This link opens in a new window
Policy papers and statistics for Asian countries. Covers a variety of issues including health, development, women's issues, poverty and economics.
EMIS Intelligence This link opens in a new window
A resource for information about emerging markets in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia. It contains current news, company & industry information, and market & economic analyses.
Euromonitor Passport This link opens in a new window
Market research reports and related data sets. Covers various consumer products from a wide range of industries worldwide. Includes other relevant information to understand products and their markets such as country reports, demographic data, foreign trade statistics and more.
Global Financial Data (GFD) This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Need to register for an account and login on GFD in order to use the database. Collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. Data includes: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries.
Global Insight DataInsight-Web This link opens in a new window
Economic and financial time series data from the IMF, DRI, OECD, US, stock indexes and more. Some of these data files are also available in WRDS.
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Mergent Archives This link opens in a new window
A vast historical index collection of corporate and industry related documents. Contains reports covering different countries and industries.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Published factbooks bring together essential statistics by theme; other statistical data can be manipulated as tables or charts within iLibrary and downloaded.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides current statistical data and comparisons for a wide-ranging and continually updated array of topics, using both publicly accessible and proprietary sources. The chief types of data are related to marketing, demographics, and government information. Sources include market forecasts, dossiers, and industry reports.