News of the CARMA 2.0 update appeared in US media and abroad, including in Taiwan and India. CGD Web and Media Assistant Ben Edwards collects a few excerpts in “CGD Coverage from the CARMA 2.0 Media Launch.”

CARMA 2.0 has arrived! And our analysis of the latest data shows that the world still has a long way to go on curbing emissions growth.
Last week’s Washington Post feature on CARMA focuses on massive growth in Chinese emissions. Although pollution wasn’t big news once the Olympics started, this year China’s power sector will emit […]

Recent weeks have seen the carbon footprint of the National Thermal Power Corporation - India’s largest power company - come under some scrutiny. A Times of India article in late July first noted NTPC’s global prominence in terms of CO2 emissions, drawing upon a now-outdated version of CGD’s CARMA database of global power sector emissions. […]

If you’re new to CARMA, we’ve created a quick, 4-minute video tutorial (below) introducing you to a couple of CARMA’s more useful features. In particular, it shows you how to easily locate emissions information for any power plant or locale in the world — like your hometown, for example. I hope you find it useful.
 
 

We’re pleased to annouce that Version 2.0 of CARMA is now up and running. The Washington Post featured an article on the new data in today’s paper, focusing on the growth of emissions in China. We have posted the full press release for CARMA 2.0 on the Center for Global Development’s website.
We have also created a Version Tracker […]

Since the launch of CARMA in November of last year, we’ve been working hard developing the next incarnation of the database. CARMA 2.0, to be released to the public in the near future, represents a significant expansion and improvement. The new data will provide information on the state of the global power sector as of early 2008, inlcuding planned expansions and corporate ownership. It […]

One role of CARMA is to provide information on plant and firm-level CO2 emissions to local activists trying to block new coal fired powerplants. I am involved in one such effort in Northern Virginia, where a group with the wonderful name Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPLE) is working to organize religious organizations to combat climate […]

The Confronting Climate Change team at CGD is always interested to see what happens to our work once it leaves our desktops and joins the “marketplace of ideas,” fighting to make it to the top of a mountain of information on environmental issues. So we thought we’d quickly share two recent sightings from two very […]

As reported in an earlier post, we are releasing a widget entitled “Improve Your CARMA” that allows users to submit information back to the CARMA site. We are all very proud of the data CARMA provides to users, but we believe that through a collective effort, our power plant data could become much richer. […]

We’d like to think that CARMA has a pretty comprehensive database of plant emissions data. There were a lot of numbers to crunch, and we tried our best to present this data in the clearest possible way. What you see on this site is pretty much all the data we’ve been able to collect. With […]