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Monitoring the Planet's Pulse

Resource Watch provides data to monitor the planet for a sustainable future.

Resource Watch is launching on April 11. Learn more

Trusted and timely data is necessary
to solve the world's environmental
and development challenges.

Today, the world is awash with data, but too often it is hard to find, unreliable, and difficult to use.

Resource Watch is our answer to this information gap: the dynamic new platform harnesses the data revolution to create unprecedented transparency on the pulse of our planet. Resource Watch compiles the best data on the state of the Earth, curated by our subject matter experts.

What data?

What data?

We are living in an unprecedented moment where fake news spreads at an alarming speed, facts are under attack, and trust in the institutions and decision makers charged with protecting the planet are is being eroded.

This is eroding trust in our institutions and in the decision makers who are charged with ensuring the well-being of people and the planet.

We need to have high-quality, reliable and timely data in order to make informed decisions about our future.

That’s why we are introducing Resource Watch, a new dynamic platform that provides trusted and timely data to monitor the Earth for a sustainable future.

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An open platform
to listen, learn and act

Resource Watch, an open platform for everyone to explore accurate, up-to-date insights about our planet.

Anyone can create visualisations or apps, using data from satellites, sensors and social media, to tell stories about the state of our planet.

Then, with seamless sharing tools, show the world what you've learnt and inspire action.

What can I do with Resource Watch?

Citizens

Apps and alerts to make sustainable decisions every day

Using the data in Resource Watch, you could find out the big issues affecting your area or look deeper into the footprint of the things you buy. With this insight at hand you can identify the sustainable options, or share your findings in your community to inspire action.

citizens

Organisations

Tell stories that matter to galvanise support for big issues

The Resource Watch platform has the tools you need to build maps, graphs and stories about the biggest social and environmental issues facing our planet now and in the coming decades. Through integration with global citizenship platforms (like change.org) you can facilitate immediate actions and engagement.

organisations

Governments

Free, accurate and timely data for the decisions that matter

Collecting and analysing the data to inform policies, enforce legislation and review effectiveness is an expensive and time-consuming process. With Resource Watch’s dashboards and alerts, available at a range of scales, we can package the data to make it as easy as possible for staff across government to take care of their resources.

governments

Researchers

Reliable data for your analysis, models and investigations

With the tools available in the Resource Watch web application you will be able to combine a range of datasets and perform unique analyses, uncovering insights to build our global knowledge. The simple download tools and API then help you plug the data into models or perform deeper analysis offline.

researchers

Developers

APIs and documentation to save the world, one app at a time

Using our public API, you can feed Resource Watch data into your applications or build new, focused apps that highlight how people can make decisions for a more sustainable world. We have a couple of ideas ourselves; get in touch to find out more.

developers

And more...

A world of opportunity awaits you

With all this data and processing power at your disposal, there’s a whole host of opportunities awaiting. What about delivery drivers using information about the environment and their cities to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and levels of pollution in the city?

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Partners to join us
on the journey

  • CartoDB
  • DANIDA
  • Descartes Labs
  • Astro Digital
  • DigitalGlobe
  • espa
  • esri
  • theEARTHGenome
  • Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
  • Google
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
  • NERC
  • Research Into Results
  • Sida
  • Tilia Fund
  • UMD
  • UNDP
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Vizzuality