About This Project

What is the Global Energy Transition Tracker?

The Global Energy Transition Tracker is as an open database and platform that provides crucial energy data and information for specific regions, aiding local campaigns in advancing the energy transition at regional, national, or subnational levels.

This tracker highlights "iconic zones" that hold significant importance within the context of the energy transition pathway. The tracker introduces each zone, providing information on symbolic value, government policies and targets, finance, employment, transmission, land availability, as well as social and environmental impacts. Each zone is represented on the tracker with an energy map that shows both fossil fuel energy and renewable energy projects, sourcing from the Global Energy Monitor's database.

The tracker is expected to be updated twice a year.
The last update was in March 2024.
For more information on specific energy datasets, please visit the Global Energy Monitor's website.

What is an Iconic Zone?

The Global Energy Transition Tracker collaborates closely with environmental groups worldwide. Its primary focus is to identify energy transition zones, which can span across cross-national, national, or subnational regions. Zones are recognized for their potential to actively engage civil society in phasing out fossil fuels and developing clean, renewable energy.

Iconic Zones can take various forms, such as sea areas with offshore wind energy potential, towns or provinces with aging coal plants or coal mines, or areas with low-conflict spatial designs suitable for renewable energy development. For each zone, the tracker aims to highlight both the opportunities and the potential obstacles to the energy transition.

The tracker collaborates with 350.org to aid local stakeholders in identifying “iconic zones” using the Iconic Criteria Scorecard. Stakeholders can use the tool to evaluate local areas for renewable energy development, assisting in determining their potential to attain iconic significance. View Iconic Criteria Scorecard.

Global Energy Monitor

Global Energy Monitor (GEM) develops and analyzes data on energy infrastructure, resources, and uses. We provide open access to information that is essential to building a sustainable energy future. Founded in 2007, GEM commits to full transparency and accountability in our work. We believe that the data we gather should be accessible to everyone, as we believe that everyone is affected by the issues our work addresses. We hold ourselves accountable to rigorous standards of excellence in research and analysis, striving to provide the most accurate picture of the international energy landscape possible.

Team

Hailey Deres

Researcher

Cheng Cheng Wu

Project Manager

Contact Person

Chengcheng.wu@globalenergymonitor.org

Data Licensing

All Global Energy Monitor data are freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License unless otherwise noted.

Under this license, you are free to:

Share — Copy and redistribute data in any medium or format.

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the data for any purpose.

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Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

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GREENPEACE IMAGERY

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