{"657346":{"#nid":"657346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Carbon Tracker Lets Georgians Monitor Emissions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgians can now track where greenhouse gas emissions come from thanks to a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.drawdownga.org\/ghg-emissions-tracker\/\u0022\u003Etool\u003C\/a\u003E that estimates those emissions at the state and county level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped by Georgia Tech professors, the interactive map allows users to filter publicly available greenhouse gas estimates by county, month, year, and energy sector. Users can specify whether the emissions come from transportation, agriculture, commercial, forestry, residential, or industrial sources and counter with how much carbon is absorbed by trees and soils.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The purpose of the tracker is to bring technology to bear on climate solutions,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/william-drummond\u0022\u003EWilliam Drummond\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning\u003C\/a\u003E and the lead behind the tracker. \u0026ldquo;This is the first time there has been effort to downscale emissions to the local level in a dynamic way we can update every month.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative is part of a trifold effort in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.drawdownga.org\/\u0022\u003EDrawdown Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ray C. Anderson Foundation\u0026ndash;funded project across state universities to decrease reliance on carbon inspired by the national program Project Drawdown. As the first stage, the tracker enables Georgians to understand how the state contributes to emissions. Next, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E will develop a business compact study to assess the economic impact of less carbon, and then the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E will lead solutions activation. The tracker ties everything together by letting researchers measure how effective all the efforts are combined.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the researchers hope to inspire everyday Georgians to get involved in combatting climate change. With the public\u0026rsquo;s familiarity with Covid-19 case trackers, Drummond believes the tracker is accessible to most users, from regular citizens unsure how to help the environment to high school science students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This tracker is designed to be a catalyst for a climate movement across the state of Georgia, so it\u0026#39;s important that we include ordinary citizens, advocacy groups, and businesses as partners in working toward climate solutions in Georgia,\u0026rdquo; Drummond said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers expect the carbon tracker will grow beyond Georgia. The tool is written in the common coding language R, so other states can replicate it. They also hope to track many other climate elements in the next few years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;ll progress as the technologies and markets evolve, and will soon turn to where the solutions are \u0026mdash; not just where are the emissions are,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/marilyn-a-brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents\u0026#39; and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re going to tie it all together, and it\u0026#39;s all going to be facilitated by this geospatial tracking.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgians can now track where greenhouse gas emissions come from thanks to a tool that estimates those emissions at the state and county level."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2022-04-15 16:50:19","changed_gmt":"2022-04-20 18:33:13","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657348":{"id":"657348","type":"image","title":"Carbon Tracker","body":null,"created":"1650041867","gmt_created":"2022-04-15 16:57:47","changed":"1650041867","gmt_changed":"2022-04-15 16:57:47","alt":"Carbon tracker","file":{"fid":"249153","name":"Screen Shot 2022-04-15 at 12.50.43 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-15%20at%2012.50.43%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-15%20at%2012.50.43%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1188230,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-15%20at%2012.50.43%20PM.png?itok=G6-o2Rr3"}}},"media_ids":["657348"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}