An open-source taxonomy for climate technology. https://www.globalclimatelandscape.org/
This document is the master open-source climate tech taxonomy and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please use comments to provide feedback for consideration and incorporation into Landscape 2.0, planned for Q1 2022.
Table of Contents
Climate is a cross-industry thematic.
10 Sub Sectors spanning 3 Industry Groups Energy, the Environment and Infrastructure.
50 Clusters across those 10 Sub Sectors (5 clusters per sub-sector, somewhat an artificial constraint for 1.0)
The renewable energy sector creates opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while stimulating economic opportunities, alleviating poverty, and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change. Energy technologies encompass tools and techniques to generate and use energy in every segment of our societies, from powering the places we live, work and play, to fuelling our transportation vehicles and industries. … transform their energy fleet with renewable energy technologies, ranging from biomass briquettes and solar PV cells to large-scale district heating plants with co-combustion of renewable energy sources.
Datapoints
Coal-fired power generation accounted for 30% of energy related CO2 emissions in 2018 (International Energy Agency)
The share of renewables in global electricity generation rose to 29% in 2020 (International Energy Agency)
Fossil fuels made up 80.2% of total global energy consumption in 2019 — a decrease of just 0.1% since 2009 (REN21)
Around 759 million people worldwide still lack access to electricity (Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report)