Open national and local carbon accounts/Request and campaign

Draft text of request to Public Sector Information Unlocking Service (beta)

Name of public sector information holder
DEFRA, National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory

Information asset
Local CO2 emissions data: CO2 emissions for local authority areas for 2006 and 2005 (2007, etc. as available]. 2006 1x1 km CO2 emissions data by Local Authority

Describe the problem and any history
Despite widespread concern over climate change, and the Climate Change Act 2008, information on local emissions remains largely invisible to citizens and communities.

Describe what you would like - your ideal solution
All data relating to climate change in the public domain or available for reuse under GFDL and similar copyleft type licenses. Ordinary web pages (not spreadsheet docs, or PDFs) showing CO2 emissions data by location. Citizens and communities able to play their part in moving toward a lower carbon future, able to see the whole picture from the personal, through local and national to international data in a clear and consistent way. Similar intitiatives to Project Vulcan in the US. Participatory carbon budgeting. A positive outcome in time for the Copenhagen (UNFCCC) conference in November (2009).

Describe what you would do if the information was unlocked
Publish CO2 emissions for local authority areas for 2006 and 2005 (2007, etc. as available] on the Sustainable Community Action wiki, any additional information from collaboration with public sector information holders to help enrich citizens and communities understanding of the data, assumptions and questions arising, and include open forum for discussing contentious issues such as the fair and equitable allocation of emissions. The text of this request was first published on the Sustainable Community Action wiki.