Datasets

The Fossil Fuel Atlas consolidates large volumes of freely available spatial data into an open access mapping portal, offering access to a wide range of fossil fuels, social and ecological data sets.

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The extraction and use of fossil fuels and other resources are impacting people, nature and the Earth’s climate. The development of new oil, gas, and coal infrastructure must end in order to meet internationally agreed-upon climate goals.

  • Oil and Gas Lease Blocs in Amazonia

    Pre-lease: Includes statuses such as Under study, Not leased, Free area, Reserved area, and Reserved area in favor of YPFB. These represent blocks that are not currently under contract or negotiation and remain institutionally unassigned. Pre-production: Encompasses administrative or early exploratory phases including Exploration, Exploration with ANH, Deposit unification phase, Simplified process, TEA, s.i., SPECIAL CONTRACT FOR CEPI, Application, Semi-explored promotion area, Promotional area, Evaluation area, Technical evaluation, Technical evaluation agreements, Contract, Tendered, Proposal received for negotiation, Extension procedure, On offer, and Area with CSP in negotiation. These statuses reflect varying degrees of legal engagement, promotion, or technical assessment prior to the initiation of physical infrastructure or extraction. Production: Covers blocks in which field operations have been implemented or are ongoing, including Development, Production, Exploitation, Exploitation agreement, and Available area with productive assets. Post-production: Refers to blocks where operations have ceased and site closure processes are underway, including Rehabilitation and In Return

Fossil Fuel Data
  • CO2 - Carbon Dioxide sources

    Data downloaded from Carbon Mapper (https://carbonmapper.org/) and includes data on plumes from 1789 carbon dioxide sources. "Our data  portal includes observations of methane and CO2 super-emitters across the globe. We detect, pinpoint and quantify emissions at a facility-scale and make this data available to the public, providing accessibility and transparency to maximize impact.We use precision visible-infrared imaging spectrometers on satellites and aircraft to locate, quantify and track methane and CO₂ point-source emissions."

  • Coal Deposits

    A global overview of coal deposits, collected by the Leave It in the Ground's Protected Carbon project.

  • Coal Mine Tracker (GEM)

    This is global coal mine tracker from Global Energy Monitor released in May 2025. Download Data - Global Energy Monitor

  • Coal Mining in Protected Areas

    Oil and gas extraction activity (drilling, licensing, surveying) within the world's protected areas (nature reserves, parks, UNESCO sites, etc).Created by the Protected Planet project (https://protected-planet.org). Based on data from Rystad Energy and Protected Planet. Current as of October 2023.

Ecological Data
  • Bonefishes Tarpons Ladyfishes IUCN

  • Clupeiformes IUCN

  • Coral Reef Presence

    Coral Reef Presence Area in SQFT

  • DEPRECATED -- Cold Water Corals Global Distribution

    This dataset shows of the global distribution of cold-water corals. Occurrence records are given for 86 Families under the subclass Octocorallia (octocorals; also known as Alcyonaria) and four Orders (in Class Anthozoa): Scleractinia (reef-forming corals), Antipatharia (black corals), Zoanthidae (encrusting or button polyps), and Pennatulacea (sea pens). Occurrence records are also available for the order sub-Order Filifera (lace corals) in Class Hydrozoa. This dataset has been superseded, link to newer one - Cold Corals - www.fossilfuelatlasportal.org https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/3

Social Data
  • EEZ Boundaries

  • Global Climate Risk (CIL)

    Global Climate Risk from Climate Impact Lab by country. This represents the 2020 annual temperature estimates for SSP-2-4.5 at the 50th percentile. 5th percentile and 95th percentile estimations are also present.  https://impactlab.org/map/#usmeas=absolute&usyear=1986-2005&gyear=1986-2005&tab=global

  • Global Population Density

    Global population density raster data according to: https://landscan.ornl.gov/

  • Global Population Density (GHG)

    Global Population Density via the US Greenhouse Gas Center backed by NASA. This tiff displays population density in 2020 as estimated by the GGC.   https://earth.gov/ghgcenter https://data.ghg.center/browseui/index.html#sedac-popdensity-yeargrid5yr-v4.11/