Climate Tagger

Climate Tagger is a new suite of software tools to help strengthen and unite organizations and individuals using knowledge to fight climate change, improve resiliency and further green growth across the world.

Fast facts:

Climate Tagger is free and open source, relying upon donations from governments and organizations dedicated to addressing climate change;
Climate Tagger continuously upgrades its services to lower the barriers to entry by implementing intuitive modules for various software platforms.
The program runs in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The problem

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges today and spans countries and continents, societies and generations, sectors and disciplines. Yet crucial data and information on climate issues can be closed off and not accessible to the general population.

The solution

Climate Tagger works by applying automated tagging to unstructured content in databases, websites or online libraries in French, English, German, Spanish or Portuguese. Knowledge that can be tagged ranges from technical specifications to policy recommendations to survey results and more. The result is a streamlined knowledge system, with key concepts connected to definitions and taxonomies created and vetted by experts and linked to related content within and beyond the system at hand. Climate Tagger is based on the multilingual Climate Smart Thesaurus, a vast catalogue of specialized terminology, including mapped links to synonyms and related terms. Climate Tagger’s software engine is a web technology called PoolParty, developed by Vienna-based Semantic Web Company, which uses Linked Open Data to help build taxonomies and definitions.

Helping the planet

Climate Tagger connects cross-cutting interdisciplinary work related to climate change and development, and aims to be a crucial tool to link data and knowledge on the environment.

Helping people

The beneficiaries of Climate Tagger include organizations, governments, and end users – individuals working in the climate change adaptation and mitigation fields, in addition to other fields related to sustainability. These users can be found at all socioeconomic levels, in nearly every country on the planet.

Spillover effect

Climate Tagger can be implemented on any platform, portal or website anywhere, with no license restrictions and with support from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership.