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Updated Climate and Policy Data and Design Notes #342
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Hi @klongleywood, thanks for the updates! |
Sorry Tamara! Try https://tnc.box.com/s/gbesb7j3jn6yxeyk9ydoidgrtlcz3c82) and https://tnc.box.com/s/nrfhku0xr6ksizc7z42jaxf3gx923yfb instead. |
Hi @klongleywood, We would suggest another approach: normalising the emission values by the % of the country that is coastal area (considering it as a 1km buffer around coastline for test, but this should be refined). In that case the values are much more comparable: |
Hi @AngelArcones -- thanks for this! I brought this up with the team last week and we think that this type of approach is helpful but that it would benefit from some standardization around the various emission sources as well. I've asked my colleague to provide data on this and I expect it this week -- I should have more guidance for you on this soon. |
Copy of NCS mitigation potential density by country.xlsx Hi @AngelArcones -- here is a copy for the data you can use for the bar chart on the left. The data have both totals as well as totals normalized by land area. It might be useful to see what it looks like both normalized and non-normalized but I think we will want them normalized. It also occurs to me that for the non-mangrove interventions, if, cumulatively, they are a lot larger than the mangrove values, we could get away from the stacked bar chart and show the values as separate bars. Let me know if you need more info! |
Hi @klongleywood |
Hi @klongleywood , we have a follow-up to the previous comment. Let us know your thought about this potential approach and any changes on it. If you decide to move on with this idea, there are some data / design aspects we would need to clarify:
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@AngelArcones thank you for this!! I'm very optimistic that this approach will work, but let me just reach out to the rest of my team to confirm. I think the data from this paper is appropriate to use. I will ask about grouping too. Thanks for continuing to think creatively on this. |
@AngelArcones I spoke to my team about this on Friday and they have some concerns about the data used in this paper. They are going to try to find data on the area of each intervention so that we can normalize by that rather than normalizing by total land area. If they can't track that down, we'll just forget about the comparative data and just show the stats for the mangrove interventions. |
Hi @klongleywood , Donut with values for each group: |
@AngelArcones I'm waiting for feedback from my team on the above design decision related to the fish enhancement. Should we put this question in another thread since it relates to another tool (not the climate and policy widget)? For the climate and policy widget, I found data that normalizes some of the mitigation options by area of opportunity rather than total land area, so I think that will solve our problem, but there are a few nuances in the data that I also need feedback on. Our team meets next Friday, April 1, and I should have some decisions on these topics following that call. |
@AngelArcones I got a suggestion today from the team doing this model. They asked if we could emulate the style of the graphic in Figure 4 of this paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-021-00935-0/figures/4 where we have an little icon of a fish, a crab, and a shrimp (right now these are both lumped in to inverts but in the new data we will have them separated), and then the catch value listed next to the icon. In the paper, the values are expressed as percentages, but in GMW, we'd want these figures expressed as numbers of individuals (rounded values, expressed in the thousands or millions, or whatever is most appropriate). Can we do something like this? |
@AngelArcones and fyi @lhilarides and @dhakelila I'm attaching a table that can be used to compare mangrove climate mitigation opportunities to other land use climate mitigation opportunities, where the denominator is the total area of opportunity in hectares -- this, I believe does the trick of communicating the high values of mangrove per hectare. The last column on mangrove restoration has data that will need to be updated once the mangrove restoration opportunity analysis is complete, but the values should be similar enough so that we can mock up this graphic to see how it looks, as the overall data structure won't change. Please let me know if you have any questions! |
@klongleywood After reviewing the data and testing different things, I am sharing here a couple of options of visualisations for the climate mitigation potential of mangroves. Note that they allow for interactivity (country selection, highlight of categories), so it is easier to have an overall idea of how each option would look for the different locations. https://public.tableau.com/views/Mangroves_emission_mitigation/Story1 From our side, we believe the second option would be the best choice, since it results in a simpler and more direct plot that allows for a better direct comparison, and is in line with the original idea for this widget. In any case, please review it and let us know any comments/suggestions/feedback you might have. |
@AngelArcones we agree that the second design is best -- please move forward with that. The only requested change is to have the horizontal axis labels be horizontal. Thank you! |
Hi @AngelArcones and @dhakelila -- happy to report I finally have updated NDC data for the climate and policy widget. As noted during the last call, we have a slight modification to the first blurb on the International Status Panel under NDC targets. Currently, it reads: Country's NDC target is xx mt CO2e/yr by xx year, which represents less than .01 of its GHG" It should now read as follows. I'm breaking up the clauses to specify how to deal with cases where information is missing, but these can all be lumped together for the first blurb.
As before, we'd like to have a hyperlink linking to the NDC text (Column M). Finally, we'd like to have a "More info" hover or other functionality for including the NDC Blurb [Column O], perhaps right under that first blurb. For the subsequent blurbs/sentences in that panel, note that I have added columns in this new spreadsheet so any Column linkages will just have to be adjusted (for example the sentence around the updated/first NDCs and whether they contain coastal and marine NBS will now come from Columns Q - T. I need to write up info button language for each of the panels so it might make sense to add a placeholder for an info hover icon or similar, and I will work on that draft metadata next week. I know this is a lot of info but hopefully not too confusing. Please let me know if you have questions! |
Hi @klongleywood, definitely, very clear explanation. We are evaluating it and might come back with small questions. |
Hi @klongleywood one question. I want to double-check which kind of comments should we expect from that revision. If we implement what was described before, we'll have little space for manoeuvre afterwards so I'm wondering if it would be better to check with your team before diving into the implementation. This means that if we implement what you describe above, we'll be able to slightly change the wording, but definitively, no changes to the logic or add new items. If you expect changes further than wording, I'd suggest that you review it with your team before we start this implementation. |
Hi Clara,
Thanks for checking in on this. When we review this widget we are going to be very clear with them that we can’t change any feature design or add any additional datasets at this time. We will only be looking for feedback on wording and making sure the data look correct, so I think it’s ok to start building it out.
Kate
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Hi @klongleywood<https://github.com/klongleywood> one question.
During our last meeting, you mentioned that this specific widget needs to be reviewed by your team thoroughly before becoming public.
I want to double-check which kind of comments should we expect from that revision. If we implement what was described before, we'll have little space for manoeuvre afterwards so I'm wondering if it would be better to check with your team before diving into the implementation.
This means that if we implement what you describe above, we'll be able to slightly change the wording, but definitively, no changes to the logic or add new items.
If you expect changes further than wording, I'd suggest that you review it with your team before we start this implementation.
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Understood! Thank you! |
I just deleted my last post on the investible carbon panel b/c it turns out I was using data from 2016 -- I'll have data from 2020 later this week |
@AngelArcones @dhakelila and FYI @lhilarides Here are the numbers for the investible carbon card on the climate and policy tool. I included instructions in the column headers but to summarize, Columns F, I, J, and K should be used to populate the pie chart values. columns E and G are labels for the two investible column values in the pie chart. There are also a number of countries that don't have investible carbon values calculated, so I added a column indicating whether a pie chart should be included (tagged with a Y) or not (tagged with a N). For the latter, instead of the pie chart, have text that says "Investible blue carbon values have not been calculated for this country" Let me know if anything isn't clear. |
Hi @klongleywood if I understood it correctly, you are asking to include a logic to either show the donut or a sentence when there is no data for that country. That is not a big deal, but the project's logic so far is that when there is no data available for a country, we simply don't show that card. Do you think we can do the same in this case? |
@dhakelila that's fine too! |
Great! Thanks @klongleywood @AngelArcones , @aagm , @mluena . See my comment above regarding this widget and let's follow the logic of the project for consistency. |
@AngelArcones @dhakelila fyi @lhilarides Hi all, I've written some draft info button language for the climate and policy tool. Please note that this is draft and will more than likely change after we have our review of this widget, but if possible, I think it would be helpful to include this draft language in the draft version that we show to reviewers so that they have something to react to, and can see how we're contextualizing the information. Would that be possible? 1. Investible Blue Carbon Estimates of mangrove forest area that can qualify for blue carbon financing that is financially sustainable over 30 years, based on prices of $5/ton and $10/ton based on Zeng et al. (2021). These investible carbon areas are mangrove forests that can be protected through carbon financing. Areas of investible mangrove are defined as those under imminent threat of loss or decline if left unprotected by a conservation intervention. The estimate also accounts for carbon from above and below ground biomass, as well as soil carbon. Profitability of projects was based on average costs of project establishment and annual maintenance, weighted by the country’s GDP. Investible areas are rounded to the nearest 1,000 Estimates of mangroves in protected areas are based on the World Database of Protected Areas (July 2022). Calculations of remaining mangroves (i.e. mangroves that are not within protected areas and not considered investible) are based on GMW extent v 3.14. These data can be used to better understand, at a national scale, the potential of blue carbon finance that can be used towards climate mitigation goals, including nationally determined contributions specified under the Paris Climate Agreement. 2. Emissions Mitigation by Area Estimates of emissions mitigation potential for mangrove interventions (e.g., protection or restoration) compared to other selected mitigation interventions. For these interventions, the total carbon mitigation opportunity is adjusted by the estimated area of the mitigation opportunity. The mitigation potential values used supplementary data from Roe et al. (2021), which aggregated mitigation potentials from a variety of individual and sectoral studies and datasets. For the purposes of this tool, we chose to include land-based mitigation measures that focused on forests and other ecosystems (e.g., grasslands, peatlands), and did not include values related to agriculture, bioenergy, or demand-side measures (e.g., food waste). Where multiple values for a single mitigation measure were reported (e.g., Reduce Deforestation), this tool used the average value reported in the supplementary data table. The source data contained both technical and cost-effective values. Here, only the technical values are reported. We updated the mitigation potential for mangrove restoration to newly calculated values from Worthington et al. (in prep). 3. International Status 3a. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) reflect a country’s proposed actions under the Paris Climate Agreement to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. Data used in this tool to describe a country’s NDC comes from Global Climate Watch (WRI 2022), or directly from the text of the country’s NDC. 3b. Information on whether a country’s NDC includes coastal and marine NBS (Nature-Based Solutions) comes from a policy brief (Lecerf et al. 2021) developed in anticipation of the UNFCCC COP26 (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Convention of the Parties, held in Glasgow in November 2021). NBS are actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems in ways that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, to provide both human well-being and biodiversity benefits. In this context, mitigation measures aim to avoid and reduce emissions of GHGs into the atmosphere to prevent further warming. In the context of coastal and marine NBS, mitigation measures can include reducing loss of natural habitats that store carbon (e.g., mangroves and seagrasses), or restoring natural habitats that capture carbon. Adaptation measures aim to alter behavior, systems, and ways of life to protect people, economies and the environment from climate change impact. In the context of coastal and marine NBS, these can include improve resilience of coastal ecosystems. Coastal and marine NBS provide important opportunities for responding to climate change and achieving national climate policy goals. The data presented here offer a chance to better understand where countries are already using coastal and marine NBS, and where there might be opportunities to enhance the use of NBS in future NDC revisions. 3c. The wetlands supplement is a methodology report adopted by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change), which contains guidelines for countries on improving their inventorying and reporting of GHGs from wetlands, with the goal of providing a pathway for countries to reduce agricultural emissions from peatlands and mangroves. 3d. FRELs (Forest Reference Emission Level) is a benchmark for emissions exclusively from deforestation and forest degradation. Setting a FREL is a necessary first step for countries to benefit from the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) program. If mangroves are included in a country’s definition of a forest, they are eligible under the REDD+ program for climate credits. |
@klongleywood Global Climate Watch redirects to an issue. I think it's worth moving that info to another place and linking there (maybe to wiki?) |
@mluena Oops -- copy and paste error on my part. We should link to this site: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ |
@klongleywood I've made a notebook showing the provisional data processing, implementation of the logic and phrasing for the international status text widget. |
@mluena -- I just went to that link and now it seems to only be showing the Mangrove Emissions Mitigation and the Blue Carbon widgets. The 4 widgets that I need to have my team review under the Climate and Policy category are. Mangrove Emissions and Mitigaton If we could put all of these in the same staging environment, that would be very helpful. Thanks! |
ok, let me take a look because those four are exactly the ones I left, so if you are not seeing all of them I need to check where the problem is. I let you know as soon as I fix it |
@mluena thanks -- I'm now seeing all but investible blue carbon |
@klongleywood ok, I see the problem now. For some of them there is no data in the API (we agreed to improve the structure so we cleared the endpoints). For emissions mitigation for example, you are seeing the "placeholder" I put just to check the visualisation. The only one showing real data is investment potential. I'll let you know when data is ready so you are able to see the 4th of them together for the test |
@mluena ok, thank you! Let me know if there's anything else you need from me. |
@mluena - just checking in -- when do you think this will be ready? Thanks! |
We can´t update the endpoints because Alicia is out this week. Angel and I
are going to try to prepare the rest of the data for tomorrow so it can
serve you for testing even though it doesn't go through the API
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think this will be ready? Thanks!
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@klongleywood I have updated the branch with the data straight away in the platform so you can check the 4 widgets for different locations |
@mluena thanks! I will start review with my team. One thing I see missing is the information about the FRELs -- See slide 2 in the ppt mock-up provided on December 16th in the above thread. The text about FRELs and whether or not a mangrove is considered a forest or a wetland was originally its own widget, but we asked to have that text moved under the International Status heading. In the CSV, data feeding into this is Columns U and V. |
@klongleywood Regarding the sentence for the FREL data, in the presentation it currently displays as (highlighting the potentially dynamic parts):
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@AngelArcones -- I'm linking to an updated spreadsheet that has the FREL in the last column. And you're right, we never got the "according to xxx" data, so just leave out that part of the sentence. Thanks! |
@dhakelila here are the issues that emerged on the initial review call -- I expect to have the rest of the review wrapped up by Friday. General
Widget 1 Investible Blue Carbon
Widget 2. Mangrove Emissions Mitigation -- I can't currently see this on staging -- can you return it to the dedicated staging site while we review it?
Widget 3. Mangrove International Status
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Great, thanks for this feedback. We'll prioritise the rest of the items so we wait for the rest of the feedback on Friday but we'll start if time permits. |
Issue: no visible layers on the map when the Climate Policy dashboard is opened. This changes the logic of the rest of the widgets and might be misleading. I think the behaviour you are looking for is something similar to restoration, but it's not the same because, on the Restoration, we created a widget with many widgets. We could eventually do this with Policy and Climate, but not now. |
Changes on the Widget 1 Investible Blue Carbon done. |
@klongleywood , @klongleywood please, check the Emissions Mitigation color palette proposed. I'm not sure if we'd like to have all the non-mangroves similar tone (like different greens but all of them green) |
Notes from the meeting: Mangroves in green and other in orange-purple. Less "pastel". |
On the international status widget, there are a few issues:
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@klongleywood changes ready in staging. Let us know if you want us to deploy to production and we'll do it asap. cc/ @mluena |
@dhakelila @mluena fyi @lhilarides Almost ready, but still a few issues.
-In the Carbon market potential, I don't think the values of the donut are reflecting the correct values for the Additional Investible Blue carbon at $10/ton. As specified in the table I sent, these should be pulling from Column I because it reflects the additional value from carbon at $10/ton. |
Both widgets have been updated, let me know if you want me to show "International Status" in prod @klongleywood |
@mluena thank you! Feel free to push to prod |
Amendments for international status widget ready in staging, we are looking
into carbon market
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Almost ready, but still a few issues.
- Thanks for adding the additional information about
adaptation/mitigation. There is an apostrophe that shows up at the end of
the sentence (see Angola for example). Can you remove that?
- The units for the second sentence are still incorrect. Should be
MtCO2e/yr
-In the Carbon market potential, I don't think the values of the donut are
reflecting the correct values for the Additional Investible Blue carbon at
$10/ton. As specified in the table I sent, these should be pulling from
Column I because it reflects the additional value from carbon at $10/ton.
This is different than the text about Blue Carbon at $10/ton which pulls
from Column G (this is currently correct).
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Thanks for your patience as I got this information together! Here are some notes on the climate and policy tool. I'm attaching an updated table and ppt slides to support.
New table is here
New mock up is here
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