News Release

CARMA Named a Webby Honoree

April 24, 2008

The Center for Global Development's Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) web site has been named a Webby Honoree by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

The Webby Awards is the premier international competition honoring excellence on the internet. The academy is a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

According to the Webby Awards site, "Of the more than 10,000 entries submitted to the 12th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work."

In November 2007, CGD launched CARMA.org, a database of carbon emissions for over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. We think CARMA deserves its Webby Honoree status because:

  • It gets the public exploring data on carbon emissions, power generation - timely concerns relating to climate change.
  • The geographic interface ala Google maps allows users to "dig" through the data to discover the top CO2 producing (or greenest) plants, companies, and places that house these plants on earth.
  • The open application programming interface (API) allows programmers to extract the data and use it on their own sites, and CGD hopes that many others will build off of it (contact us if you'd like help!)
  • Also, it was prominently featured on CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, BBC News, NPR, and many other major media outlets.

Contact

Kurt Voelker