Resources for city professionals

Google's Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) is built to empower cities globally with data and insights to help measure emission sources, run analyses, and identify strategies to reduce emissions — creating a foundation for effective action.

Rebecca Moore, Director of Google Earth, Earth Engine & Outreach, introduces Google's Environmental Insights Explorer - featuring the City of Melbourne, Australia.

Learn how Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) is being used by cities in Europe to inform regional transport emissions reduction plans & promote sustainable modes of travel

In this video, you'll learn how to access, work with, download, and share city transportation emissions, building emissions, and solar potential data in EIE.

This video will give you a better understanding of the sources and methodology used by EIE for each type of environmental data we provide, including transportation emissions, building emissions, and rooftop solar potential. 

Learn how your city can use EIE to measure, act, and track their progress toward a sustainable future.

Explore this guide created by Urban Transition Mission for cities looking to get started with the EIE platform for informing, actioning, and monitoring local mobility policies.

ICLEI Europe has undertaken a comprehensive analysis of EIE to better understand the extent to which it can assist European cities in advancing local climate action and achieving their carbon emissions reduction goals.

ICLEI Europe and Google have been working together to better understand how EIE can support cities in bolstering local climate action and in achieving their local carbon reduction goals. The following is an Overview for European Policymakers.

This ICLEI Europe case study sets a founding example for cities on how to move from a top-down to a bottom-up transport emissions calculation approach, using Google‘s EIE data as a basis. 

This ICLEI Europe case study explores how Greater Manchester (GM) is using Google’s EIE data to inform the transport estimates used to track the progress of its Local Transport Plan, which defines the city‘s sustainable urban mobility strategy for the year 2040.

This ICLEI Europe case study explores how the city of Aarhus is using EIE's transportation emission data to assess emissions sources, conduct analyses, and formulate strategies for impactful actions. 

This ICLEI Europe case study explores how Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has used Google‘s EIE Transportation Emissions and Trips data to better understand their transport sector‘s carbon footprint and the mobility patterns of citizens.

Learn more about how Google Research is working to address climate change by using aerial imagery and AI paired with Environmental Insights Explorer data analysis capabilities.

This Bloomberg feature explores Google's tree canopy & cool roofs technology for cooling our cities.

EIE is helping New Taipei City achieve its net-zero emissions goal by providing free Transportation and Building Emissions data to the municipality’s government. Learn how it has enabled their urban planners to research, plan, and implement carbon reduction strategies and track the impact over time.

We’re working to build more solutions — like our AI-based predictions and forecasting — that provide actionable information to help individuals stay safe and communities plan ahead.

This German language guide is intended for German municipalities interested in using data from Google's EIE tool, and illustrates how the platform can support planning processes for climate protection, particularly in the transport sector.

EIE's Preview Insights allows everyone to view a sample of environmental data for more than 40,000 cities and regions across the globe.

Heat alerts are coming to Search — plus more ways we’re helping cities and organizations adapt to rising temperatures.

Learn how the city of Yokohama in Japan, is using EIE to raise awareness of global warming for the next generation to take action against climate change.

Copenhagen Solutions Lab partnered with Google and Utrecht University in The Netherlands on Project Air View using a specially-equipped Street View vehicle to measure street-by-street air quality. 

Planting trees in cities helps provide shade, lower temperatures and contribute to cleaner air — all of which are huge benefits when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change.

Learn how Dublin City Council is using EIE's Air Quality data to capture Dublin's air pollution street-by-street.

As Los Angeles first-ever City Forest Officer, Rachel’s work is shaping the tree stories that Angelenos will tell. Learn how Rachel and the City of Los Angeles used Google's Tree Canopy data understand current tree cover density,

Extreme temperatures are becoming more common in cities where concrete and infrastructure are now creating heat islands. Trees are increasingly seen as a solution to both lowering street-level temperatures while improving quality of life.

Kyoto City became the first Japanese city to be added to the EIE platform in October 2019. This Japanese language video explores how the city used the platform to act against climate change.

Learn how US cities like Hartford, Connecticut and Lancaster, California have made use of EIE's solar and transport emissions data for climate action planning.

Learn how EIE's Air Quality data can help Copenhagen decrease air pollution.

This guide is intended to provide city sustainability professionals with an overview of Environmental Insights Explorer, its insights, its data and collection methods, and common use cases for cities looking to meet their climate goals.