We need open data to fight climate change | World Wide Web Foundation

" ... Apocalyptic floods. Historic droughts. Food insecurity and mass migration. This is the future that faces us all if world leaders fail to agree and enforce a strong and binding deal to tackle climate change this week in Paris. “Never have the stakes been so high”, observed French president Francois Hollande as he opened the gathering, 24 hours after over 600,000 people around the world marched to demand that leaders take decisive action. Of course, we’re going to need more and better data to measure and track progress against the targets that will (hopefully) be agreed this week in Paris. This would include tracking temperature changes, mapping deforestation and biodiversity in real time and cataloguing changes to flood plains as oceans rise. But making this data open by design could be the secret ingredient that accelerates progress. How? First, it will enable collaboration ..."