Visualisations

The FABIO Viewer is an open-source visualization tool powered by the hybrid FABIO v1.0 model, offering an intuitive way to explore biomass flows from production regions to consuming regions and vice versa.

FABIO v1.0 provides comprehensive multi-regional physical supply-use and input-output tables, covering agriculture and forestry flows as well as embodied land use across global supply chains, spanning 191 countries and 130 products from 1986 to 2013. This powerful tool enables users to delve into the intricate connections between production, trade, and consumption, revealing the environmental and resource implications of global biomass use.

The figures generated by the FABIO Viewer are licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The Global Coal and Metal Mining Viewer allows users to view location, information, and production data for individual mines. The Viewer features an interactive global map, where users can browse across and zoom into mining areas worldwide. The Viewer displays the location of mines included in the Database on Global Coal and Metal Mining, where data on more than 1100 mines globally was gathered from mining company reports.

The Mining Geovisualisations display geospatial layers of information on global mining activities based on satellite images developed in the ERC FINEPRINT project. The Viewer features an interactive global map, where users can browse across and zoom into mining areas worldwide. The geospatial data layers include the two versions of the Global Mining Land Use Data informing about land areas occupied by mine sites around the globe. One layer also displays the location of mines included in the Database on Global Coal and Metal Mining, where data on more than 1100 mines globally was gathered from mining company reports.

This interactive map was developed in the project “Spatial analysis of coal mining lands for renewable energy repurposing in Southeast Asia” funded by the World Bank Group. The project was coordinated by The Biodiversity Consultancy.

The map visualizes coal mining areas in four South-East Asian countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) to identify sites potentially suitable for solar, wind, and pumped hydro repurposing. Potential suitability is determined by factors such as site size and proximity to roads, power lines, airports, or protected areas. Selectable data layers include urban extents, infrastructure, and substations, alongside the final repurposing analysis results. Users can toggle between Open Street Map, topographical, and satellite backgrounds.

The Sustainable Consumption and Production Hotspot Analyis Tool (SCP-HAT) is a free online tool designed to identify hotspot areas of unsustainable consumption and production. Commissioned by the UN Life Cycle Initiative, in collaboration with the One Planet Network and the International Resource Panel, it supports the development of science-based national sustainable consumption and production, and climate policies. SCP-HAT can pinpoint hotspots related to domestic pressures and impacts (from a production or territorial perspective) as well as indirect (i.e. trade-related) impact hotspots resulting from the consumption activities of national economies. It allows for analysing the performance of 164 countries and 120 economic sectors from 1990 to 2024. The tool was developed by our research group GRU in collaboration with the CSIRO, kindly supported by Sydney University & the IELab who provided the GLORIA database.

www.materialflows.net is the official visualisation portal of the UN IRP Global Material Flows Database, providing national and sectoral material flow data, visualisations and analyses . It covers more than 200 countries, a period from 1970 to 2024, and more than 300 different materials aggregated into 13 categories. At the heart of the web portal lies its Visualisation Centre, where users can customise a wealth of different visualisation options according to their interests and analytical needs. The website also offers a wide range of features introducing users to the concepts of economy-wide material flow accounting (EW-MFA) and setting the data on global material use into its broader context. Hosted by us, GRU, the website was first launched in 2006 and since then has been further developed and updated kindly funded by the Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology.