The Climate Change Dashboard
An interactive read on a warming planet — the data, the drivers, your own footprint, and what the next five years could hold. Figures are drawn from NASA, NOAA, the IPCC, the UN, the IMF Climate Dashboard and Climate Action Tracker.
Where the planet stands today
Headline indicators of a changing climate, monitored continuously by NASA and NOAA and assessed by the IPCC.
A century and a half of warming
Global land–ocean temperature, shown as the difference from the 1951–1980 average. The last decade contains the ten warmest years on record.
Global temperature anomaly, 1880–2024
Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISTEMP v4). 2024 was the warmest year in the instrumental record at +1.28°C.
Who and what emits
Greenhouse-gas emissions by economic sector, and how per-capita emissions vary across the world — including, once you calculate it below, your own.
Emissions by sector
Source: IPCC AR6 (2022), share of ~59 GtCO₂e total annual greenhouse gases, 2019.
CO₂ per person
Source: Global Carbon Project / IMF Climate Dashboard (2022), tonnes CO₂ per person. The You bar updates from the calculator below.
The carbon footprint calculator
Adjust the sliders to estimate your annual carbon footprint, and see how it compares with the world average and the 1.5°C-aligned target of about two tonnes per person.
Indicative model using standard emission factors (car from ~0.27 kgCO₂/mile for petrol down to ~0.06 for an EV; long-haul return ~1.8 t; short-haul return ~0.45 t; diet and home from typical household ranges). World average 4.7 t · 1.5°C target ~2 t.
Small changes, real impact
You don't have to do everything at once. Pick one to start — each is a genuine dent, and together they add up faster than you'd think.
If a billion of us each trimmed just one tonne a year, that is a billion tonnes — about what the entire aviation industry emits. Small, shared and repeated: that is exactly how the curve bends.
The next five years are decisive
Global energy and industry CO₂ emissions to 2030. Move the slider to set today's level of climate ambition and watch the five-year pathway respond — from the current-policy track toward a 1.5°C-aligned future.
From action now to 2030
A sneak peek at the IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesises the work of thousands of scientists. Its Sixth Assessment projects global warming by 2100 under five illustrative socio-economic pathways (SSPs) — the gap between them is, essentially, the choices we make this decade.
Best-estimate global surface warming by 2081–2100 vs 1850–1900. Source: IPCC AR6 WGI, Summary for Policymakers (Table SPM.1).
Data & methods
This dashboard is an educational synthesis. Figures are indicative and compiled from the open sources below; projection scenarios are illustrative, not forecasts. The underlying datasets are maintained in an accompanying spreadsheet backend.