Climate Watch

Climate Watch is a web tool for municipalities and other organisations for monitoring their own climate actions. Climate Watch is open source[4] and was originally developed by the city of Helsinki.[5] The first Climate Watch version was partly funded by EIT Climate-KIC organisation.[6] The tool is in trial use in other organisations.[7] Climate Watch is being developed by Kausal Ltd under the brand name Kausal Watch.

Climate Watch
Original author(s)Smiddy
Developer(s)Helsinki, Kausal Ltd
Initial release29 October 2019 (2019-10-29)[1]
Stable release
Helsingin ilmastovahti[2] / 29 October 2019 (2019-10-29)[3]
RepositoryAplans Repository
Written inPython, JavaScript
PlatformDjango, React
Available inFinnish
TypeMonitoring tool
LicenseCC-BY 4.0

Structure

The main purpose of the Climate Watch is to monitor progress of the actions in an action plan.[8] Each action has a contact person, which adds information about tasks and events related to the action.

The impacts of actions are measured using Smiddy indicators.[9] They are quantitative time series about some relevant phenomena that are relevant to an action. There are three kinds of indicatos: operational indicators measure a phenomenon that can directly be affected by an action. tactical indicators can only be affected indirectly. Strategic indicators measure phenomena that are of special interest, such as greenhouse gas emissions.

Every action and indicator has its own web page, where the phenomenon is described in more detail and possibly with quantitative data and objectives. The actions and indicators together form a graphical representation called insight network, where the phenomena are connected to each other with causal links. The Climate Watch also has a dashboard with a summary of the progress of the actions.

Technical solution

The backend of the Climate Watch is done with Django web framework,[10] and its user interface is done with React JavaScript library.[11]

References
  1. "Helsinki launches Climate Watch". Retrieved 16 Jan 2019.
  2. "Helsingin ilmastovahti". Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  3. "Releases · django/Django". GitHub.
  4. "Helsingin ilmastovahti". Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  5. "Helsinki ottaa käyttöön Ilmastovahti-palvelun päästövähennysten seuraamiseen". Helsingin kaupunki. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  6. "Helsinki launches Climate Watch to track city's emission reductions". Climate-KIC. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  7. "Ilmastovahti-instanssien määrä". Helsingin ilmastovahti. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  8. "Toimenpiteet". Helsingin ilmastovahti. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  9. "Mittarit". Helsingin ilmastovahti. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  10. "GitHub - City-of-Helsinki/aplans: Admin UI and API for action plans". GitHub. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  11. "Helsinki Climate Watch: Climate strategy monitoring UI - City-of-Helsinki/cnh-ui". GitHub. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
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