HATCH: Historical Technology Adoption at Global and Country Levels

Historical Adoption of TeCHnologies (HATCH) provides yearly data on technology adoption levels globally and for individual countries. The dataset includes a heterogeneous set of technologies that differ in size, use, and spatial diffusion. It was created to inform the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures.

Use Cases

• Modeling technology diffusion rates based on historical country-level adoption patterns.
• Benchmarking growth of emerging carbon dioxide removal technologies against historical analogues.
• Analyzing spatial diffusion of technologies using the heterogeneous set of included technologies.

Strengths

• Includes both global and country-level data, providing multiple scales of analysis.
• Supported by a companion file describing each technology's metric and category.
• Open Access license facilitates reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, column names, and specific time range are not provided in the available descriptions.
• The dataset exists in multiple versions (v1.0, v1.5), which may lead to confusion about the canonical source.

Provenance

Source

University of Wisconsin–Madison, authored by Gregory F. Nemet.

Collection Method

Compiled from multiple historical sources, with a separate file listing data sources and citations.

Geography

Global and country-level.