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CARMA’s First 48 Hours


The numbers are just fantastic: 150,000 visitors from 187 countries in CARMA’s first two days. Just as important are the hundreds of comments and emails we’ve received with congratulations, suggestions, and questions. Thank you. We will begin sifting through them next week. In the mean time, continue spreading the word. There’s so much more to [...]

Too Much of a Good Thing: CARMA Sluggish Today


Much to our pleasure, the response to CARMA in the media and blogosphere has been fantastic. Sincere thanks to everyone for their interest and support. We hope to keep it going.
The attention has generated so much web traffic at CARMA.org, that we are temporarily disabling the download data feature. [UPDATE: This feature has been restored.] [...]

CARMA 101: Quick Tips to Get You Started


We set out to make CARMA.org an intuitive and easy-to-use (dare we say fun?) source of information. Although the database behind CARMA is massive, all of the information can be searched, sorted, parsed, and downloaded with just a few clicks or keystrokes. Here are 5 quick tips on how to do just that, ranging from [...]

Eye in the Sky: Identifying Plants from Above


By providing detailed estimates of carbon emissions facility by facility, CARMA provides the world’s most comprehensive inventory of power sector emissions. It also happens to be the world’s best place for power plant voyeurism.

Kevin Ummel

As part of the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for Global Development, Kevin works with Senior Fellow David Wheeler in assessing the sources, impacts, and policy implications of global warming. His current research includes the monitoring and public disclosure of carbon emissions through CGD's Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) project as well as the use of global climate models and geographic analysis to better understand the socioeconomic impacts of climate change. Kevin also assists President Nancy Birdsall in her work on income distributions and the middle class. He is a recipient of the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors.