Use cases
Public sector
With Crosswalk, you can focus on solutions to solve your city's climate-related problems by knowing what emissions look like. Our data supports action: community inventories, climate planning and emissions tracking overtime, space, and emitting sector. We show you the high-resolution emissions landscape of your city. Additionally, Crosswalk’s uniform methodology allows for apples-to-apples comparisons with other cities, speeding up the learning cycle and supporting regional collaboration.
Private sector
From clean energy companies siting their next facilities, to carbon capture projects looking for locations with specific strategic requirements, Crosswalk provides the intel. Crosswalk data also fills information gaps in emissions assessments for assets held and managed by large investment firms and trusts. For example, asset managers can use Crosswalk data to understand how emissions would be impacted by potential partnerships or acquisitions. The data enables powerful mapping and spatial analytics to identify opportunities, assess risk, understand climate realities, and enhance location context.
Advocacy
What if think tanks, journalists, and NGOs could use consistent data to drive effective policy change? Crosswalk provides citizens, advocates, and media with reliable emissions data, verified against the atmosphere - so you know it is trustworthy. Crosswalk emissions data can be aggregated by neighborhoods and layered with public health and demographic data to identify overlapping public health concerns and emissions hot spots.
Why Crosswalk
Increase awareness
Get buy-in to prioritize climate action by effectively communicating emissions information in a way that is plain to see and easy to understand.
View your emissions data
View your emissions data, take action to reduce emissions, and track your progress over time.
Compare Cities
Learn what sustainable cities are doing to quantifiably reduce emissions, and connect with city leaders to put their insights to work for you.
Solve Converging Problems
Find opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while advancing priorities such as low-incoming housing, equity in health care, and transportation planning.
Attributes unique to Crosswalk Data
Atmospherically verified
Crosswalk’s process includes comparing its emissions estimates with government-measured CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere.
Peer-review
Crosswalk data have been developed through scientific research in academia, partially funded by NOAA, NASA, and NIST. Crosswalk submits the sources, methods, and results for review by experts, and for publication in reputable scientific journals
Gap-filling
Crosswalk can leverage location-based activity data to calculate emissions for individual assets and can provide reliable estimates for gap-filling when utility bills or other use data are unavailable.
Comparability
Crosswalk data allow for clear comparisons across different locations, assets and organizations because Crosswalk uses the same sector definitions, scopes, and methods across the entire country. Crosswalk data are also aligned with The World Resource Institute’s greenhouse gas reporting protocols and CDP disclosure framework.
Temporal resolution
Annual Crosswalk emissions data are available through 2023.
Corporate campus scale
The native resolution of Crosswalk emissions estimates is census block group level and can be aggregated to any geographic footprint, including corporate, university or military campuses.
Scope, Scale, Sector
Data for aggregated geographic areas are available across all sources of fossil fuel CO₂. Scope 1 data are available for the complete dataset and Scope 2 data date back to 2019. Our products report for 50 states, 435 congressional districts, tribal lands, 3,000+ counties and 3,601 urban areas. Crosswalk has building-level and street-level emissions data for over one hundred U.S. cities and can add your community to this growing list.
Scope 2
Crosswalk Scope 2 data, estimates of CO₂ emissions from electricity use, are based on grid modeling traced to power plants to estimate emissions at the point of electricity consumption.
Latency
Crosswalk is developing quarterly data updates and now-cast capabilities.
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