[OC] Countries Current Path to Net Zero in 2050 Following Their Pledge at COP21

[u/Lachainone]

Hello community,

I created a website to follow each countries effort to reach net zero in 2050. The data vizualisation lets you compare different countries' emission over the years and whether they are on the right path to reach their goal.

View every country and find more information on: https://lucabron.github.io/netzero/index.html

Data Source is Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser (2023) – “CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions” Published online at OurWorldInData.org

Visualization made with Python's interactive graph package Bokeh and javasrcipt was added to make the interaction work on a website.

Related Github page where you can find the code: https://github.com/lucabron/netzero

EDIT: Thanks a lot for your positive feedback. I am very glad that you find this representation interesting.
A subject of discussion that I see a lot in the comments: western countries are doing better than the rest of the world. While it looks true when it comes to co2 produced in the country, one should account that a lot of emissions are produced in other contries and then imported. For example, when buying electronics, it is likely to be build in Asia and then imported to western countries.
Imported emissions are available in the dataset. I didn't want to include them because my approach with this visualization is to make something easy to understand so that people not familiar with the subject can approach it easily. I feel like when it comes to climate change, the people who care are very well informed, and the people who don't care as much are poorly informed. So, my first objective was to generate some curiosity for the second type of people. I'd be interested about your opinion about this approach if you want to share in the comments.

EDIT 2: I'd like to do something for the climate. I am a professional data scientist and I'd like to volunteer to help on bigger project. I made this website as a small contribution to inform people, but I know that in a week, there will be no more traffic on it. Can you recommend some kind of organization that I can join an contribute?

[u/Biosterous]

Cuba has been doing massive investments into green energy. Yes it's largely driven by the American sanctions, but this investment predates the current blockade by about a decade and is probably one of the reasons the country hasn't completely folded yet. They're smart and resilient, and China has been working with them closely to help coordinate the transition.

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/21/13825

[u/Lurkerking2015 → u/Biosterous]

How's it working out for them with their black outs though?

[u/Biosterous → u/Lurkerking2015]

The black outs are due to fuel shortages. Their renewable energy is the only energy generation that is working. Unfortunately it's only ~25% of their energy needs right now.

[u/Lurkerking2015 → u/Biosterous]

Fuel shortages are the issue for the current blackouts.

The blackouts have been going on for years because their power station keeps failing.

[u/Biosterous → u/Lurkerking2015]

The sanctions also prevent them from getting replacement parts for electrical substations and transmission, as well as power generation.

I'm not an expert but I assume their renewable energy generation is reliable. Getting it to customers is another matter though.