Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from?
Globally, we emit around 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases each year. Where do these emissions come from? We take a look, sector-by-sector.
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Which countries have protected both health and the economy in the pandemic?
Exemplars in Global Health: Which countries are most successful in preventing maternal deaths?
830 women die from pregnancy-related causes on any given day. Most of these deaths are preventable. How can we use the Exemplar framework to identify which countries have been most successful in doing so?How epidemiological models of COVID-19 help us estimate the true number of infections
We know that confirmed COVID-19 cases are only a fraction of true infections. How small a fraction though?Exemplars in Global Health: Learning from the most successful countries in the world
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Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves
For most of our history, we were losing terribly against the microbes. Only recently did we turn the battle in our favor. Vaccines were a major breakthrough.Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam’s commitment to containment
Vietnam is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.Emerging COVID-19 success story: South Korea learned the lessons of MERS
South Korea is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany's strong enabling environment
Germany is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success stories
How can we identify which countries have responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic? We look at the key metrics that help us identify success stories.A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries
Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. How is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons?We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about climate change: 'Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?'
A video about the contributors to climate change, and how countries can work together.Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing data
Not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our testing dataset.Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?
Data tracking public mobility trends over the pandemicCOVID-19 Data Explorer
Explore all of our data on COVID-19 vaccinations, cases, excess mortality, and much more.How to read the famous coronavirus trajectory chart — video explainer
What we can and can’t learn from COVID-19 charts.How do the carbon footprints of foods compare? Our article as a video.
Which foods have the highest and lowest carbon footprint?We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about the COVID-19 pandemic
We worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it.Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions
Food waste accounts for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That's 6% of total global emissions.The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?
How we treat the climate impacts of methane matter a lot for carbon footprint of foods. But even if we exclude methane, meat and dairy products emit the most.