The Center for Climate and Environmental Data (CCED, pronounced “seed”) is a program of the Data Foundation. Our vision is a federated and interoperable data ecosystem where decision-makers have the data needed to drive markets, mitigation, conservation, finance, and compliance—one where public agencies provide foundational data and private actors are motivated to contribute.

Climate and environmental data are foundational infrastructure for the American economy. The lack of trusted, reliable information about land, water, air, and natural resources underpins how we prioritize investments, manage risk, protect public health, and sustain the natural systems that economic activity depends on. The CCED works to make that infrastructure more useful for everyone who depends on it. Our partners span government agencies, private sector data providers, research institutions, and international organizations.

The CCED is one of five Data Foundation program centers. It applies the same nonpartisan, knowledge-broker approach the organization brings to federal data policy across all sectors. The CCED is led by Senior Director Sonia Wang, with support from a growing bench of scientific, technical, and policy experts who bring decades of combined experience in greenhouse gas measurement, modeling, and standards development as well as environmental economics. The team’s broad efforts to improve the quality, accessibility, and usefulness of climate and environmental data are driven by the following initiatives.