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Open climate data
infrastructure for Africa

OCKA federates climate knowledge bases built from Africa. Scientific, open, sovereign. A commons for the continent's transition.

Discover LCADBOur manifesto
Wind energy in Africa
Energy transition
Documenting African realities
with the rigour of open science
Why OCKA

Climate data
do not describe
Africa

The LCA databases, MRV methodologies and carbon frameworks used today are designed for European and North American industries.

African stakeholders pay costly licences for data that do not represent them. Their footprints are computed on assumptions that do not fit.

OCKA exists to close that gap.

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Aerial farming in Africa
Components

Four knowledge bases

OCKA federates specialised databases, each dedicated to a facet of Africa's climate transition. LCADB is the first component published.

01
Available
LCADB
Life Cycle Assessment Database
African LCA database. Emission factors by sector, geography and year, sourced and community-validated.
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02
Coming soon
MRV Engine
Monitoring, Reporting & Verification
Reference framework for carbon project methodologies adapted to the continent. Article 6, Verra, Gold Standard, with an African lens.
03
Coming soon
Terra
Earth Observation & Soil Carbon
Sentinel-2 satellite data and African soil carbon stocks. EUDR compliance and plot-level monitoring.
04
Upcoming
Policy Watch
African Climate Regulations
Pan-African climate and carbon regulatory watch. CBAM, national taxonomies, country-level climate laws.
Principles

What guides our choices

Primary African sources
African scientific publications, institutional reports, field data. No data redistributed from proprietary European databases.
Distributed governance
Contributors validate collectively. Sectoral maintainers are elected by the community. No central authority.
Full openness
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. Free consultation, reuse with attribution, contribution open to all.
Cryptographic traceability
Every published datum carries an immutable SHA-256 signature. Public change history. Verifiable at any time.
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Ecosystem

OCKA powers the
operational tools

OCKA bases serve as the scientific foundation for climate platforms. ClimateOps, Konfluance's SaaS solution, consumes LCADB for its LCA calculations adapted to the African context.

Eight integrated modules: GHG Inventory, CBAM Shield, MRV Engine, Terra, Decarbonation, Climate Partner, Sustainability, LCA.

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African climate landscape
Join

OCKA grows through its contributors

Researchers, industrial players, experts, institutions: your expertise enriches a scientific commons for the continent. During the beta phase, contributions are made in direct liaison with Konfluance.

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