The Center for Global Development launched yesterday its remarkable new online database that shows how much individual power plants around the world are contributing to the total 10 billion annual tons of CO2 from that sector. The CARMA web site, which we're proud to have worked with CGD's David Wheeler to conceive and develop, allows users for the first time to explore, on an interactive map, where individual power plant sources are, who are their operating companies and how much do *they* contribute in total, how much are emissions by country, and more. Also very remarkable about the service, we think, is that the online data service was built with the intention of being an open source which others can build off of - using the open Application Programming Interface (API). CGD very much wants others to take this data and run with it - layer onto it other kinds of information and services, and the open API is to encourage and enable that.

The service has already been written up in the Washington Post, New York Times, and National Public Radio's Climate Connections


New developments will be noted on the CARMA blog.

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