The Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) tool has been created in partnership with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, an international alliance of almost 10,000 local governments and city representatives that have committed to combatting climate change. The tool offers free datasets across building emissions, transportation emissions, energy offset potential and 20-year climate projections to enable city planners to explore new measures to set meaningful emission reduction targets. “With EIE, data sets that once required onsite measurements and many months to compile can now be assessed virtually, reducing cost and time investment,” said Rebecca Moore, Google Earth’s director of engineering. The EIE analyses datasets from Google Maps to enable cities to create carbon baselines, set mitigation goals and identify reduction opportunities. The data can also outline opportunities for specific investments in solar installations, public and low-emissions transport and projects that reduce vehicle traffic.  .

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