Dataset containing all data available from the UNFCCC API at https://di.unfccc.int as of 2020-10-25. Additionally, includes a small library to query the UNFCCC API for a subset of the data, and a script to refresh the data in case newer data is available.
Due to the large size of the full dataset, the dataset is shared using datalad, which is based on git. To download the data, see the dataset page on gin to download individual files from the data/ directory, or clone the whole dataset using datalad:
$ datalad clone https://github.com/mikapfl/read_di_unfccc.gitThen you can fetch the data using datalad:
$ cd read_di_unfccc
$ datalad get -r .You can learn more about datalad in the datalad handbook.
References: All the data included in this dataset is available from the UNFCC API, which sources the data from:
- GHG inventory data: UNFCCC: Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data, available at https://unfccc.int/process/transparency-and-reporting/greenhouse-gas-data/what-is-greenhouse-gas-data
- Population data: UNSD Demographic Statistics, available at http://data.un.org
- GDP data: The World Bank GDP data, available at https://data.worldbank.org/ and shared by The World Bank under the CC-BY 4.0 License and pusuant to their terms of use.
If you want to use the library to download data from the UNFCCC API, check out the example.ipynb notebook for a simple usage example. To re-download all of the data, use the download_all.py script.
License: the python scripts are provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.