Great to be back at #SatSummit2022. Look forward to discuss renewable energy, transmission grid mapping, and energy & land use with new and current partners.
Thanks to and all contributors. Congrats on great program!
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We are #hiring a a Senior Software Engineer, responsible for providing day-to-day engineering as well as technical leadership & vision for the shared backend infrastructure that powers WRI’s data platforms, such as , GFW & : jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/oFfGgf
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NEW REPORT: Today we released State of Climate Action 2021, which looks across all sectors to highlight the key transformations needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, with targets for 2030 & 2050. Below I summarize the findings on food & agriculture. 1/ wri.org/research/state
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What's next? Sign up for updates here: landcarbonlab.org/subscribe
Sign up for insights on planetary health and sustainable development data from here:
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Global Land Cover Change from will provide new insights about the trends and dynamics of land use change. Here is for example cropland expansion across Brazil, East Africa and India for 2000-2003 and 2016-2019 time intervals:
land.resourcewatch.org/?lat=23.401402
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. is partnering with to produce a 30m resolution map of global land cover change over the last 20 years using Landsat data.
The preliminary dataset is available here: land.resourcewatch.org/?lat=0&lng=0&z
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The new Trees in Mosaic Landscapes dataset from uncovers billions of trees previously unaccounted for in assessments of #TreeCover. Read about the creation of the dataset here: bit.ly/3btYxgy and explore it on here: bit.ly/3jYLrfX
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Today at #COP26 launched to combat climate change, protect #Biodiversity, & improve people’s lives: landcarbonlab.org
Data for will be available and visualized on . A🧵about the datasets already available:
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Looking for some weekend reading? You can download "The State of Open Data - Histories and Horizons" for free from our website and have hours of reading about current topics in #OpenData! buff.ly/2wrU2hS
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Get up to speed on extractives governance news and analysis with NRGI's newly released monthly email update. The new edition covers #Mongolia, #Guinea, commodity trading, #EITI2019, petronia.games and more: mailchi.mp/resourcegovern
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The 2019 RGI interim assessment for Guinea has launched. Results and recommendations for improvements to #resourcegov in Guinea can be found here: resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/
Congratulations to colleagues on all the launch events this week!
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Presentation of the 2019 #RGI interim assessment for #Guinea to Young Africa Leaders Initiative #YALI Guinea chapter.
Participants were delighted to be part of the journey and expect more from @NRGInstitute to help improve #resourcegov in Guinea.
@kaisatoroskai @ThomasLassourd
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What level of #AML and #KYC requirements should Facebook face from regulators if/when issuing #Libra? is pretty clear: If big tech operates like big finance, it should have the equivalent (costly $$) compliance requirements: bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2
From reporting systems to open by default, and finally to "open by design".
Considerations for the improvement of internal systems for external publication.
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#Ulaanbaatar, #Mongolia.
/ @WorldBankMGL Mission.
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. will also seek to advance the field’s understanding of how the resource governance response to extraction may have gendered impacts through supporting new research exploring the gendered impacts of revenue management frameworks. (2/2)
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At #EITI2019 gender session shares ’s commitment to incorporating a gender lens into our work, including proactively finding ways to address barriers to participation in our training courses and promoting effective use of data. (1/2)
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. heads up session on gender inclusion with discussions on the need for gender disaggregated data and improving gender balance within MSGs. #eiti2019
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Critical discussion of how to do more to incorporate energy transition into oil and mining governance field. Per , need to think of risks in both env & macro-Econ terms, big impacts on how much debt countries take on, how much they spend via NOC’s. #eiti2019.
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“If we consider ethics in the #energytransition one could argue that new producers like Mozambique should be the last to encounter stranded assets, after OECD countries. In reality, however, new producers often face risks from high production costs.” - #EITI2019
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As background, see my review of the last decade of progress on #opendata in the extractives sector. This is a contribution to the book, which cuts across multiple sectors and themes: stateofopendata.od4d.net/chapters/secto #EITI2019 #opendata
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#EITI2019 See you tomorrow at 8:15 am for a session on leveraging ICT for mainstreaming. Look forward to speak about the potential and limitations of technology, how to build #dataliteracy, and how mainstreaming can go beyond data collection to support #datause informing reforms.
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.’s research on beneficial ownership screening, more broadly, is available here: resourcegovernance.org/analysis-tools #EITI2019
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Audience question on data privacy and beneficial ownership at #EITI2019. and did some excellent research on this thorny issue:
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explaining why we need to go beyond #beneficialownership transparency to fight corruption in oil, gas and mining sector and to detect the involvement of politically exposed persons #EITI2019
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. on the emergence of beneficial ownership registries: “The most important question we have to ask is, what are we going to do with this new data, eg. improving our understanding of the links between companies and politically exposed persons?” #EITI2019
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“By requiring beneficial ownership information from domestic and international companies for oil bidding rounds, we ensure that we receive serious bids. We now need to scale this to other sectors including mining and forestry” - #EITI2019
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The Engine Room has done some terrific work on #dataliteracy, #datause and #digitalinclusion, all key topics of #EITI2019. It would be great to see more extractives CSOs take part in this technology program to strengthen the voices for community driven #datause.
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Curious about implementing new tech tools, but unsure where to start? Your project may benefit from a call with our Light Touch Support team. 
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Also pleased to hear the Minister highlight the lack of internet access as a barrier for local communities. From measured site traffic to resourcecontracts.org we have noted that communities indeed have a demonstrated interest in contracts signed in their country.
#eiti2019
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We are working with partners to make project data, contracts and other extractives data available for analysis. -
Projects: resourceprojects.org
Contracts: resourcecontracts.org
Extractives data: resourcedata.org #EITI2019
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An example of data dissemination and data engagement by MSGs is Ghana’s work to visualize revenue data. supported the MSG to show developments in oil and mining revenues: data.gheiti.gov.gh/#home #EITI2019
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“The inclusion of gender and environmental information in the EITI standard is an important response to the demands from locally impacted communities. It will now be important to use this data for policy reforms” - Ana Carolina Espinosa #EITI2019
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“The key to this approach is understanding that software development is not a mysterious and incomprehensible magic, but instead a straightforward trade practiced by millions of Americans that is easily grasped and even mastered by government employees.”
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This is still a work in progress, but i think it's pretty good. Interested in your thoughts. github.com/18F/technology
We will add those contracts which have not previously been available in public domain to:
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