Carbon dioxide emissions are the primary driver of global climate change. It’s widely recognised that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to urgently reduce emissions. But, how this responsibility is shared between regions, countries, and individuals has been an endless point of contention in international discussions. To reach our climate goal of limiting average temperature rise to 2°C, the world needs to urgently reduce emissions. Who should lead the charge? The countries that contributed most?
Over the years, Singapore has taken positive steps, policies, and strategies to address the effects of global climate change. In May 1997, Singapore endorsed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to support the worldwide efforts and demonstrate its commitment to mitigate and control GHG emissions.
Singapore is pursuing the target of reducing CO2 emissions by 7-10% by 2020 and has adopted following CO2 mitigation strategies in the power generation sector. One of the mitigation strategy is to recycle. Singapore uses Waste-to-energy plants which produce less carbon dioxide emissions compared with coal-fired steam production. Singapore's waste-to-energy plants have been contributing about 2-3% of its energy supply. At the moment, there are five waste-to-energy plants. Currently, 60% of Singapore's garbage is recycled, with the remainder being burned or discarded in landfills. Singapore aims to recycle 70% of its waste by 2030.
Data: CO2 Gas emission by Countries, Years from 1950-2020
How: The visualization is represented as a Geospatial visualisation to show the World Cumulative CO2 Emmissions throughout the years.
Why: As the yearly CO2 emission has been rising since 1950, it leads to global warming.
Data: Carbon Emission Type, Years from 1950-2020, Amount of emitted carbon emission
How: The visualization is represented as a Line Chart to show the amount of usage of the different type of carbon emission throughout the years.
Why: This is to show the seriousness of the increase of carbon emissions produced in Singapore. Moreover, decision makers/government can make informed decisions to try to reduce or maintain the greenhouse gases.
Singapore has made significant contributions to the World's CO2 emmisions. The graph shows the cumulative levels of various contributing factors to CO2. For data points at 0, there is no data collected for that year.
Data: E-Waste Recycling Location, Second Hand Location
How: The visualization is represented as a Geospatial Visualization to display the location of the E-Waste Recycling and Second Hand Location.
Why: With the increase of carbon emission especially co2, it causes the global temperature to rise. Hence, Singaporeans should play apart to help to save the earth by recycling their item or donate them to a second hand shop.
To help reduce Singapore's carbon footprint, Singaporeans can go to any of the above E-Waste Recycling Centres or Second-Hand Shops to dispose of their unwanted items.
This site was built by Daren, Michelle & Nu Win with all contributing equal efforts to the project.
The geojson data and co2 data that was gathered had different naming conventions for the countries, as such renaming was required to ensure that the data is able to match.
Using D3 to do the line chart led to some issues with the Y-Axis not refreshing, upon fixing it, the transition did not work for switching between graphs. Chart.js was used in the end to display the data.
A better story line.
More interactive graphs (i.e. showing the CO2 emission trend when user hovers over the interested country.)
For geospatial dropdown when click on the infographic legend, display only the selected co2 emission rate by respective countries
Tidy up the codes
https://github.com/darenpuan/CSC3007-project