At the end of 2022, the Camda secretariat completed its mission. This website is currently being maintained by the Data-Driven EnviroLab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We will periodically update this website with analysis and reports produced by members of the Camda community.

Camda was initiated in 2017 by a call from Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary UN Climate Change, and Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change, for a collaborative network of professionals and organizations to assess and communicate the impact of climate action and to record and track ambition and progress made by these actors in the context of the Paris Agreement.

Since its origination, the community focused on three core workstreams related to climate actions:

• Methodologies on data collection and analyses;
• Data synergies and determining metrics of progress and ambition; and
• Aggregation of verified data into published reports and analyses.

Building on this work, Camda fostered a framework for data collection and tracking of climate action progress in states, regions, cities, businesses, and investors as well as exploring how to unlock benefits for credible progress in climate action made by these actors.

In 2021, the Camda secretariat evolved according to the community’s needs in service of the broader ecosystem of all actors working to track mitigation commitments to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on a downward trajectory to net-zero emissions by 2050 to limit the rise of global temperature to 1.5C.

Camda was also a convenor, along with the Data-Driven EnviroLab and OpenEarth Foundation, of the Climate Action Data 2.0 Working Group from 2021-2023.