WRI’s CAIT project provides comprehensive and comparable databases of greenhouse gas inventories and other climate-relevant data, analysis tools, and dynamic maps.
The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) by WRI is a set of comprehensive and comparable greenhouse gas inventories, together with other climate-relevant indicators. CAIT can be used to analyze a wide range of climate-related data questions and help support policy decision making and discussions under the Climate Convention and in other forums.
- The original CAIT includes comprehensive socio-economic and natural resource indicators, together with the most complete set of international GHG inventories available, compiled from internationally recognized agencies.
- CAIT UNFCCC provides similar capabilities using inventories submitted by countries to the UNFCCC Secretariat in their National Communications.
- CAIT V&A features indicators and analysis tools designed to inform policy discussions concerning vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
- CAIT-U.S. provides U.S. state-level GHG inventories and indicators for state-level climate policy analysis.
Additionally, there are several dozen charts and figures available in the CAIT charts area, suitable for use in print or presentations. Many of these are taken from Navigating the Numbers.
WRI believes that obtaining relevant, accurate and objective data is an essential component of sound decision making and policy development. CAIT’s primary purpose is to provide high-quality information accessible through easy-to-use yet powerful and transparent analysis tools, to support the many dimenions of climate change policy.
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