Systems Change Lab (World Resources Institute and Bezos Earth Fund)

Systems Change Lab: indicators of progress on the shifts needed for 1.5 °C

Indicators that track the shifts needed across power, buildings, industry, transport, cities, forests and land, food and agriculture, freshwater, the circular economy, technological carbon removal, finance, economics and governance to stay in line with limiting warming to 1.5 °C. Each indicator has yearly values for the world and for countries where available, often with 2030 and 2050 benchmarks and projected trajectories, and metadata naming its unit, method, status and original data sources. Indicators built from International Energy Agency data are never used, and every other indicator is used only after the licence of its original source has been checked.

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Progress of the shifts needed for 1.5 °C (Systems Change Lab)

Licence and credit

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Systems Change Lab's own data; third-party data keep their licences, IEA data excluded)
What the terms say: “Data, maps and visualizations on the Systems Change Lab website are under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows for any commercial or non-commercial use as long as you cite Systems Change Lab.”
From the producer's terms, checked 2026-10-04; re-checked automatically every week.
Credit we give: Systems Change Lab. 2025. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, Bezos Earth Fund. https://www.systemschangelab.org, accessed {date_accessed}. CC BY 4.0.
Notice: Each indicator also credits the original data source named in its Systems Change Lab metadata, under that source's own licence.
Copy of the raw file: Not allowed: we keep a private copy for our own checks and publish its fingerprint.
Cite as: Systems Change Lab. 2025. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, Bezos Earth Fund. Available online at: https://www.systemschangelab.org.

Files

scl_data_all.zip: one folder per indicator code (BLDG, CE, CR, CTY, FA, FIN, FW, GOV, IN, NE, PWR, TRNS and X-/XP- variants), each with <code>.csv (year, geo, value and, for some, projections and benchmark_low/mid/high) and <code>_metadata.csv (title, units, last updated, indicator type, system, shift, description, methodology and data sources). 438 indicators on 2026-10-04.
https://systemschangelab.org/scl-download/all

Status

Programme: Indicator files are updated one at a time through the year (the underlying repository had commits on 29 September and 1 and 2 October 2026). The State of Climate Action 2025 report (22 October 2025) assesses 45 of the indicators. Not a US federal product.
Updates: Continuous, indicator by indicator; State of Climate Action report about once a year
Last check: Fetched (2026-10-05T11:04:45Z)