Environmental Data at Risk: from Archive to Action
We'll explore the impacts of the federal government’s rollback on data collection, management, and transparency across sectors, and how the Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) and The Impact Project have worked to address these threats to our data.
The Impact Project will also debut its Climate and Energy Map, aggregating data about federal policy changes, agency reorganizations, and impacts to communities to visualize the shifting landscape of climate and energy, and to produce a tool allowing for innovative solutions to be imagined.
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Abby André, Founding Executive Director of The Impact Project ([email protected])
Jonathan Gilmour, Cofounder of The Impact Project and one of the Coordinators of the Public Environmental Data Partners ([email protected])
Jessica Mahr, Director of Technology at Environmental Policy Innovation Center and one of the Coordinators of the Public Environmental Data Partners ([email protected])
Panelists include:
Dr. Sheila Foster, Professor at Columbia University's Climate School and an affiliated faculty member at Columbia Law School ([email protected])
Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Director at the Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN), at the Columbia Climate School ([email protected])
Dr. Michael Dorsey, Director and Chair, Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service, Arizona State University ([email protected])
Catalina Spinel, Director of Partnerships at Candid ([email protected])
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The Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them.
The Impact Project is a nonpartisan data and research initiative that makes government data more transparent and accessible, and produces actionable insights to help reimagine how government, private industry, nonprofits, and civil society can better work together to build more resilient communities.