Historical emissions visualization

[joaquinOEF]

Problem Statement

It is hard to gauge the progress of an actor, this should be easy to map with current historic data we have for people to make quick evaluations.

Who is affected by this problem

Funders, researchers, advocates, that want to see who should be encouraged to improve their track record, or looking for cases to highlight for best practices.

What is the problem

It is hard to see the progress (or lack of it) of an actor without looking at the historic evolution of their emissions.

Where does the problem occur

This occurs in the actor explore page

When does the problem this occur

This occurs when users are looking for emissions and progress data in the actor explore page

Why does the problem occur

This occurs because currently only year data is shown one at a time, and it is hard to understand the progress of that actor (although there is a YoY trend)

Feature Description

Build an independent widget that shows how emissions have evolved for an actor based on a selected data source, and allow users see different sources (link to guidelines: <>)

Goal: What do we want to achieve with this

Make it very straightforward for users to understand the historic emissions of an actor based on selected source

Benchmarks

https://www.climatewatchdata.org/countries/CAN?end_year=2019&source=CAIT&start_year=1990 see historical chart

In our case we don't expect breakdown by sector, scope, etc, just total emissions.

Evidence of problem

User interviews and comments from partners

[sfishel18]

i'm interested in working on this feature. are there any preferences from the core contributors on which visualization library to use?

[sfishel18]

oh it looks like there is already a trends widget that was added recently. is there an improvement to that widget i could work on for this issue?