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  • Environment

    Global Land Cover [2009] Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    173
    GlobCover is an ESA initiative which began in 01/01/2005 in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP. The GlobCover project has developed a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps using as...
  • Policies and plans
    Renewable energy

    World - Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy Popular

    Last Updated:
    September 30, 2024
    Regions:
    Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    1221
    Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) is a comprehensive policy scorecard assessing the investment climate for sustainable energy and focusing on three key areas: energy access, energy efficiency and renewable energy. RISE...
  • Renewable energy
    Solar

    Armenia - Solar Radiation Measurement Data Popular

    Last Updated:
    November 24, 2025
    Countries:
    Armenia
    Regions:
    Europe and Central Asia
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    1126
    Data repository for solar measurements from 4 WB funded stations in Armenia. The four solar measuring stations and the associated measurement campaign have been financed by the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) as part of the...
  • Demographics
    Gender
    Policies and plans

    ESMAP Gender and Energy Indicators Popular

    Last Updated:
    May 31, 2024
    Regions:
    Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    1922
    In 2022, the ESMAP Gender and Energy Program and RISE created a database on gender-related indicators relevant to the energy sector. The energy sector plays a critical role in promoting gender equality, as access to energy, both...
  • Extractive industries

    World - Air Temperature at 2m Above Ground Level (TEMP) GIS Data, (Global Sol... Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 27, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    106
    Developed by SOLARGIS (https://solargis.com) and provided by the Global Solar Atlas (GSA), this data resource contains air temperature at 2m above ground level in °C covering the globe. Data is provided in a geographic spatial reference...
  • Extractive industries

    Derived map of global electricity transmission and distribution lines Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    724
    Overview: Global results from gridfinder model, produced by ESMAP based on joint work with Facebook and others. Uses night-time lights, road networks and existing grid network data to predict the location of transmission and distribution...
  • Transport

    GRIP (Global Roads Inventory Project) - 2018 Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    190
    The Global Roads Inventory Project is a harmonized global dataset of aproximately 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure. The resulting dataset covers 222 countries and includes over 21 million km of roads, which is two to three...
  • Transport

    Global Airports Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    161
    Airport locations were extracted and mapped from a repository of air traffic flow, and international airports were extracted. Airports were attributed with total seats from the most recent year reported; most recent year for any airport...
  • Energy access
    Power system and utilities
    Transmission and distribution

    Spain - Electricity Transmission Network Popular

    Last Updated:
    June 11, 2026
    Countries:
    Spain
    Regions:
    Europe and Central Asia
    Views:
    1040
    Interconnection of the Spanish electricity transmission network with Morocco. The properties for nodes are "name" and "node type" (city, town, plant, dam...). The properties for lines are the "transmission power" in kV (e.g. 400), the...
  • Energy access
    Renewable energy

    SE4ALL Database Popular

    Last Updated:
    March 30, 2017
    Regions:
    Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    1631
    The “Sustainable Energy for all (SE4ALL)” initiative, launched in 2010 by the UN Secretary General, established three global objectives to be accomplished by 2030: to ensure universal access to modern energy services, to double the...
  • Solar

    World - Solar Stations Inventory Popular

    Last Updated:
    September 16, 2025
    Regions:
    Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    1805
    This dataset is a global inventory of known solar stations for which there is access to corresponding solar radiation measurement data, which aims to help improve developing country's knowledge and awareness of solar resources. Users are...
  • Extractive industries

    Global Offshore Wind Technical Potential Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    169
    This dataset presents the technical potential for offshore wind development at the country level, split into potential for fixed and floating foundations. The files are grouped per WB regions and delivered in .SHP, .KMZ (CRS:4326) and...
  • Economics and prices

    Global - International Ports Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    127
    Ports were extracted from the UNCE global repository (https://service.unece.org/trade/locode/ca.htm), and were combined with port flows data from LPI logisitcs. All ports with reported international trade in Q1 of 2020 were attributed...
  • Environment

    Environment At-a-Glance Factsheets Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 27, 2025
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Global, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    32
    The factsheets contain information covering topics such as Agriculture (eg., fertilizer consumption), Biodiversity (eg., known bird species) to Environmental Health (eg., air pollution damages).
  • Renewable energy
    Resource assessments
    Solar

    World - Solar irradiation and PV power potential map Popular

    Last Updated:
    November 24, 2025
    Regions:
    Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    1685
    Map with worldwide Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI), Direct Normal Irradiation (DNI) and PV power potential. The GIS data stems from the Global Solar Atlas (http://globalsolaratlas.info). Data is available as GEOTIF, AAIGRID or...
  • Economics and prices

    Belt and Road Initiative Trade Costs Database Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 26, 2025
    Countries:
    Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Albania + 182
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    116
    This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information...
  • Extractive industries

    Europe and Central Asia - Wind Speed and Wind Power Potential Maps Popular

    Last Updated:
    February 9, 2026
    Regions:
    Europe and Central Asia, Global
    Views:
    572
    Maps with worldwide wind speed and wind power density potential. The GIS data stems from the Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/). The link provides poster size (.pdf) and midsize maps (.png).
  • Extractive industries

    World - Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) Cities Survey Data Popular

    Last Updated:
    August 27, 2025
    Regions:
    East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Global, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
    Views:
    37
    The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is a decision-support tool designed to help cities quickly identify under-performing sectors, evaluate improvement and cost-saving potential, and prioritize sectors and actions for...
  • Transport

    Afghanistan - Road Network Popular

    Last Updated:
    November 24, 2025
    Countries:
    Afghanistan
    Regions:
    Europe and Central Asia
    Views:
    611
    The dataset provides existing and planned road infrastructure in Afghanistan. Data Source: The World Bank Group. Open Street Maps have been used as a complementary source. Latest update: 2012 Comment: Many of the roads that are...
  • Extractive industries

    Afghanistan - Existing and Planned Power Plants Popular

    Last Updated:
    February 9, 2026
    Countries:
    Afghanistan
    Regions:
    Europe and Central Asia
    Views:
    614
    Operating power plants in Afghanistan as in 2016. Digitization based on Afghan Energy Information Center (AEIC) maps.
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