Open Data for Carbon Budget Accounting

This specification details how carbon budgets can be accounted for, among independent government parties, and how they can regularly publish this data such that accounting can be done by independent outsiders. This helps governments to implement human rights.

The structure of this document is:

• Structure explains how the open data packets are structured, and how they relate.
• Accounting explains how accounting takes place within data packets, as well as between them.
• Digital Signing explains how data can be verified as being authoritative after it has been retrieved. It also explains the pragmatics of handling temporary flaws.
• Data Formats explains the representation of the data in PGP-signed JSON for distribution, in CSV tables for local use and SQL table sets for interactive queries.
• Distribution explains how the open data can be published in a standard manner, and how the open data structure connects the publisher nodes.

This document comes with tools to implement the open data specification.

Scroll forward for a quick example of the exchange format.