UNFCCC website
This single posting has been combined from two earlier posting elsewhere on this site by @mrchrisadams. With the first posting added on 22 February 2022. The UNFCCC is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Problem
On the subject of data leakage, this caught my eye.
I can see this page here from the UN — where as part of the IFI project [international financial institutions] there is guidance on listing carbon intensity information energy for appraising investments:
This lists this information here — various standards and guidance:
The terms of service are interesting:
I. Copyright
All use of materials provided on this web site must follow the Terms and Conditions of Use herein, including reproduction or transmission, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or the use of any information storage and retrieval system. Any exception to this requires permission in writing from the UNFCCC secretariat.
(snip)
All official texts, data and documents, including low resolution webcast transmissions, are in the public domain and may be freely downloaded, copied and printed provided no change to the content is introduced, and the source is duly acknowledged.
Copyright exists for all high-resolution broadcast quality footage and archival audio and video materials of UNFCCC conferences.
In order to find out more about the licensing conditions, find more information here.
Later on though, the page says this in the same terms:
Website usage
A. General
1.Use of this website constitutes agreement with the Terms of Use contained herein.
2.The UNFCCC secretariat (“UNFCCC”) maintains this website (the “Site”) as a courtesy to those who may choose to access the Site (“Users”). The information presented herein is for informative purposes only. The UNFCCC grants permission to Users to visit the Site and to download and copy the information, documents and materials (collectively, “Content”) from the Site for the User’s personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom, subject to the terms and conditions outlined herein, and also subject to more specific restrictions that may apply to specific Content within this Site.
3.The UNFCCC administers this Site. All Content on this Site from the UNFCCC and all Users, whether registered or otherwise, are subject to the present Terms of Use.
I’ve sent an email to the webmaster to ask which ones apply.
Response
Here’s the abridged response from the webmaster at unfccc.int:
The paragraph 2 in our Terms of Use states that any content from our homepage can only be used only for: “personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom”. This applies to all data, documents, etc. which are published on any of our webpages.
I hope this answers your enquiry.