Beyond The Plenary: A Living Directory Of Climate Justice And AI Accountability Tools, Databases, And Trackers You Can Use Today.

By

Suman Saurav

This is a curated directory of the searchable tools, trackers, and databases the climate justice and AI accountability movements have already built.


Know a resource that belongs here? Contact me at suman@commsforacause.org and I will add it. This list grows by addition.


Part One — Climate Justice

Find action happening right now

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What it does

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Fridays for Future Action Map

Live global map of climate strikes and actions, searchable by country and date, with organizer contact details where provided.

fridaysforfuture.org/action-map/map/

Land, territory & environmental conflict

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What it does

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EJAtlas (Environmental Justice Atlas)

Interactive global database of 3,000+ environmental conflicts. Search and filter across 100+ fields, browse by company, commodity, or conflict type. Each case includes actors, mobilization, outcome, and sources.

ejatlas.org/

LandMark

First global interactive map of lands collectively held and used by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, including legal status and threats. Built by WRI with 12 land rights organizations.

landmarkmap.org/

Land Portal

Open data hub on land rights: statistical and geospatial data, country profiles, and a visualization tool for land issues worldwide.

landportal.org/

RRI Tenure Tool

Land and forest tenure data across 73 countries, tracking legal recognition of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and community land rights. Communities can submit updated data.

rightsandresources.org/rri-tenure-tool/land-tenure-data/

Climate Data Portal for U.S. Native Lands

Climate data tools built for and with tribal nations, organized around Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Life. Sourced from public federal datasets, made accessible for sovereign land planning.

nativeland.info/data-portals/climate-data-portal-for-us-native-lands/

Defenders & safety

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What it does

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Global Witness — Attacks on Defenders

Annual database of killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders worldwide since 2012, with country and sector breakdowns.

globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/land-and-environmental-defenders/in-numbers-lethal-attacks-against-defenders-since-2012/

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre — HRD Database

Tracks attacks against human rights defenders linked to business activity since 2015, including killings, threats, and judicial harassment (SLAPPs).

business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/human-rights-defenders-database/

Law & litigation

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What it does

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Climate Litigation Database (Sabin Center)

The most comprehensive database of climate litigation worldwide: 3,000+ cases and 15,000+ documents, AI-searchable, downloadable with metadata and summaries.

climatecasechart.com/

Global climate data & emissions monitoring

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What it does

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Climate TRACE

Largest global inventory and interactive map of greenhouse gas emission sources, down to individual facilities, power plants, and ships, built from satellite data and AI. Named one of Time's best inventions.

climatetrace.org/

Climate Watch (WRI)

Open data platform on every country's NDCs, emissions by sector, net-zero targets, and climate policies, with downloadable datasets.

climatewatchdata.org/

Climate Change Tracker

200+ dashboards and 1,100+ charts tracking observed warming, greenhouse gases, sea level, and the remaining carbon budget, IPCC-consistent and built for non-scientists. By Data for Action Foundation.

climatechangetracker.org/

Copernicus Climate Pulse

Daily global surface air and sea temperature data from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service, updated continuously.

pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

The Climate Brink Dashboard

Global temperature and emissions dashboard maintained by climate scientists Zeke Hausfather and Andrew Dessler.

dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/

Global Forest Watch

Near real-time deforestation alerts, tree cover loss data, fire alerts, and forest carbon flux maps. Subscribe to alerts for any area of interest.

globalforestwatch.org/

Climate finance & government accountability

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What it does

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Climate Finance Tracker (Vibrant Data Labs)

Visually searchable database of $230B+ in private investment and philanthropic grants to 6,000+ US-based climate organizations and companies, plus a Co-Investor Tracker showing who funds alongside whom. US-focused; open-source framework.

climatefinancetracker.com/

NRDC Climate Finance Commitment Tracker

Tracks countries' multiyear climate finance pledges and progress toward the four globally agreed climate finance goals, including pledges to the Loss and Damage Fund.

nrdc.org/resources/climate-finance-commitment-tracker

Climate Action Tracker

Independent scientific tracking of 39 countries plus the EU (85% of global emissions) against their Paris Agreement commitments and fair-share pathways.

climateactiontracker.org/

Net Zero Tracker

Tracks and assesses the net-zero pledges of countries, states, cities, and the world's largest companies, rating their credibility and coverage.

zerotracker.net/

IEA Climate Pledges Explorer

Explore countries' net-zero and NDC pledges alongside the International Energy Agency's analysis of what they add up to.

iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/climate-pledges-explorer

Climate Barometer Trackers

Twice-yearly tracker of UK public and MP opinion on climate change, net zero, and energy policy, with longitudinal data. UK-specific.

climatebarometer.org/climate-barometer-trackers/

Gender & climate

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What it does

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Gender Climate Tracker (WEDO)

Searchable database of gender mandates across all UNFCCC decisions, women's participation statistics in climate diplomacy by country and body, and gender-NDC country profiles. Available in English, French, Spanish, plus a mobile app for offline access.

genderclimatetracker.org/


Part Two — AI & Digital Accountability

The same machine driving the AI-for-climate conversations at Climate Week is also driving surveillance, labor extraction, and enormous energy use. These are the tools people have built to see it.

AI harms & incidents

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What it does

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AI Incident Database

Free, open-source index of real-world harms and near-harms caused by deployed AI systems. 1,400+ incidents, 5,000+ reports, full-text search and filtering. Anyone can submit.

incidentdatabase.ai/

AIAAIC Repository

Independent, open, public-interest repository of incidents and controversies involving AI, algorithms, and automation. Independent of government and industry.

aiaaic.org/

OECD AI Incidents & Hazards Monitor

9,000+ AI incidents and 5,000+ hazards documented from global news, filterable by harm type, severity, and geography.

oecd.ai/en/incidents

AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)

Open-source catalog of failure modes in AI models, datasets, and systems, with a taxonomy spanning security, ethics, and performance.

avidml.org/

Database of AI Litigation (DAIL)

Ongoing and completed legal cases concerning AI and machine learning, from complaints through verdicts.

https://blogs.gwu.edu/law-eti/ai-litigation-database/

Surveillance & digital rights

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What it does

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Atlas of Surveillance (EFF)

Searchable database and map of surveillance technologies used by US law enforcement: drones, face recognition, license plate readers, predictive policing. 15,000+ data points across 6,000+ jurisdictions, plus a downloadable data library.

atlasofsurveillance.org/

#KeepItOn Data Dashboard (Access Now)

2,100+ documented internet shutdowns worldwide since 2016. Filter, explore, and export subsets; full spreadsheet and methodology also available.

accessnow.org/keepiton-data-dashboard/

AI's environmental cost

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What it does

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AI Energy Score Leaderboard

Standardized 1-to-5 star energy efficiency ratings for 200+ AI models across 10 tasks, measured on identical hardware. Built by Hugging Face, Salesforce, Cohere, and Carnegie Mellon.

huggingface.co/spaces/AIEnergyScore/Leaderboard

ML.Energy Benchmark

Independent, automated benchmark measuring the inference energy of AI models under real-world serving conditions.

https://ml.energy/

ML CO2 Impact Calculator

Estimate the carbon footprint of a machine learning training run based on hardware, cloud provider, region, and duration.

mlco2.github.io/impact/

CodeCarbon

Open-source software that tracks the carbon emissions of running your code, so developers can measure and report the footprint of their own models.

codecarbon.io/

AI labor

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What it does

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Fairwork

Annual ratings of gig and platform work conditions (pay, conditions, contracts, management, representation) across dozens of countries, including AI data-labeling platforms.

fair.work/

AI infrastructure & the global landscape

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What it does

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Data Center Map

Global directory and map of data centers by location and operator. The physical footprint of AI, findable by country and city.

datacentermap.com/

Tortoise Global AI Index

Ranks countries on AI capacity across investment, innovation, and implementation, showing where AI power is concentrating geographically.

tortoisemedia.com/data/global-ai

AI Potluck Open Source AI Gap Map

Maps 24,000+ open-source AI products across model components, product, and infrastructure, scoring openness, capability, and adoption to show where public-interest builders are most needed. By Current AI.

aipotluck.org/map

A note on this list

Gaps I know about: regional and Global South-built AI accountability tools are thin here, and so is anything on climate migration and displacement data. If you know tools that fill those, that is exactly the kind of addition this list needs.

Let's have the hard conversation.

I am always excited about everything AI governance, policy communications, feminist technology, and climate justice.

Let's have the hard conversation.

I am always excited about everything AI governance, policy communications, feminist technology, and climate justice.

Let's have the hard conversation.

I am always excited about everything AI governance, policy communications, feminist technology, and climate justice.