Provides datasets on global and regional CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and land use, carbon sinks in oceans and land, and net carbon flux data. Used in data engineering for climate analytics pipelines, carbon accounting systems, and building greenhouse gas monitoring dashboards in Python.
The Global Carbon Atlas provides downloadable CSV and NetCDF files. Engineers use `pandas.read_csv()` for country-level emissions data and `xarray` with `netCDF4` for gridded atmospheric concentration datasets, enabling spatial carbon flux analysis.
Global Carbon Atlas data trains AI climate models for emission prediction and carbon budget forecasting. RAG systems built on this dataset help LLMs answer 'Which countries are responsible for the largest share of global CO2 emissions?' with authoritative carbon science data.
# pip install pandas
import pandas as pd
# Download CSV from globalcarbonatlas.org
url = "https://globalcarbonatlas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GCB2023v1.1_FF_emissions_territorial_countries.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(url, index_col=0)
# Latest year emissions
latest = df.iloc[:, -1].sort_values(ascending=False)
print("Top 10 emitters:", latest.head(10))Official dataset source
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