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Climate action progress tracker

Build a dashboard that compares countries' actual emissions against their Paris Agreement commitments. Serve sustainability teams needing clear benchmarks.

Why now

Growing climate urgency creates demand for tools that cut through political declarations to show real progress.

Who for
Corporate sustainability teams
Business model
Enterprise analytics subscriptions
Effort
A few months

Corporations and NGOs struggle to assess which climate commitments are real versus greenwashing.

Create an open data platform aggregating emissions reports, policy changes, and independent verification into simple country/corporate report cards.

Sell premium analytics to ESG teams needing to validate partners' claims for reporting.

Start with OECD country data before expanding to corporations and cities.

Risk: Data gathering is labor-intensive - partnerships with research orgs needed.

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