David J. Hayes on Making Climate and Environmental Data More Useful for Decisionmakers

Send us Fan Mail The latest episode of Data for the People! features David J. Hayes, an attorney and legal scholar who served in three presidential administrations, including twice as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior, and most recently as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. He is currently an Advisory Board Member and Co-Founder of the Center for Climate and Environmental Data (CCED) at the Data Foundation and a professor of practice at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford Law School.  In the episode, Hayes shares how he became interested in energy, the environment, and natural resources — and why data related to those issues matter; he explains why problems with fragmentation, trust, and lack of measurement standards are so significant for addressing climate change and protecting the environment. He also reflects on what challenges remain since CCED launched at Climate Week NYC two years ago.  Read a blog summary of the episode, with excerpted quotes.  Learn more about the Center for Climate and Environmental Data (CCED).  Learn more about CCED’s initiatives, including the GHG Coalition, a methane plume technical working group, an open-data portal to track neighborhood-level greenhouse gas emissions, and a semantic commons to improve the interoperability of climate, nature, and economic data.  The Data Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. All contributions may be tax deductible. We appreciate all charitable contributions towards fulfilling our mission to make democratic society better for everyone by championing the use of open data and evidence-informed public policy. Donate: https://datafoundation.org/supportus Want to be part of a national community that promotes policies that enable government data to be high-quality, accessible, and usable? Join our Data Coalition: https://datafoundation.org/pages/join-the-data-coalition Follow the Data Foundation on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/datafoundation