AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Partnerships for the Goals
KEYWORDS
environment, people, monitoring
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Resource Watch is built by a partnership convened by the World Resources Institute, an international organization based in Washington D.C.
WEBSITE
https://resourcewatch.org/
Resource Watch
Monitoring the planet’s pulse, providing trusted and timely data for a sustainable future.
Resource Watch is a data visualization platform that leverages technology, data and human networks to bring unprecedented transparency on the state of the planet. Now, by using satellites, on-the-ground monitoring, and human networks, everyone can gather, upload, visualize and share information at speeds that were previously unimaginable.
There is more data available today than ever before. Yet, too often policymakers, business leaders, and analysts cannot access the data they need to make informed decisions about the environment and human well-being.
Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets that are sorted and analyzed for reliability and stored all in one place to provide insights into the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Resource Watch visualizes the challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more, addressing nearly all of the Sustainable Development Goals.