carbon-registry-indexer

Carbon Registry Indexer

Welcome to the CarbonMarketsHQ Data Indexer! This tool is designed to consolidate data from multiple carbon market registries into a unified schema, making it easier to analyze and utilize carbon market data. This project is open source and we welcome contributions from the community.

Supported data sources

• Gold Standard
• American Carbon Registry (ACR)
• Climate Action Reserve (CAR)
• Climate Action Data Trust (CADT)
• Puro Earth

Installation

To install the package, you can use pip:

pip install carbon-registry-indexer

license

All the code in this repository is MIT licensed.

Sample Usage

indexer = CarbonRegistryIndexer(storage_dir='your_storage_dir'
                            azure_blob_conn_str='your_conn_str', 
                            azure_blob_container='your_container_name')
indexer.setup_storage()  # creates or purges data folder

# calls to initiate sync
indexer.sync_gold_standard()
indexer.sync_climate_action_data_trust()
indexer.sync_american_carbon_registry()
indexer.sync_climate_action_reserve()
indexer.sync_puro_earth()

Output model

• ProjectLocation: Stores information about the location of a project, including country, state, and geographic identifier.
• ProjectRating: Captures project-level ratings from different rating entities.
• CoBenefit: Links a project to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it contributes to.
• Project: The core table representing a carbon project. It includes meta information about a project.
• RelatedProject: Captures relationships between different projects.
• Issuance: Represents an issuance of carbon credits from a project.
• Label: Defines a label associated with an issuance, specifying the crediting period and validity.
• Unit: Represents the life-cycle of credit units Issued, retired, cancelled, etc.
• Governance: Stores picklist values used for governance-related fields.
• Estimation: Contains estimated credit information for a project.