Climate change risks illustrated by the IPCC "burning embers": dataset

This dataset contains numerical data and descriptive information on all 'burning ember' diagrams presented in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from the first appearance of these diagrams in 2001 to the 6th Assessment Report, published in 2022. The aim of this dataset is to bring together the data and metadata needed to reconstruct the burning embers diagrams and acquire essential information on the risks assessed and their evolution, within a single, homogeneous framework. The file presented here has been extracted from the database at the indicated date: it is a versioned archive of the database (excluding internal development fields, which are not publicly available). Analyses and figures based on this dataset are presented in Marbaix et al., 2024 [1], which provides information about the data. The data are provided in a text file in JSON format, the structure of which is described in the file itself and in the Supplement to Marbaix et al. 2024 [1].

The IPCC secretariat has confirmed that these data can be distributed under the CC-BY licence as indicated here. When using this dataset, we ask you to provide the reference to each IPCC report which is the source of the data (and additional sources listed in the references to this dataset when relevant), as well as to the dataset, adding the related paper [1] as soon as it is available.

[1] Marbaix, P., Magnan, A. K., Muccione, V, Thorne, P. W., and Zommers, Z: Climate change risks illustrated by the IPCC "burning embers", submitted.