License

Effective date: August 31, 2026

Climateshed Action is proprietary software. These terms grant you a limited license to use the tool and the scenario files you generate; they do not transfer ownership of the tool, its interface, or its compilation of coefficients.

1. The tool

Copyright © 2026 Neil Matouka. All rights reserved. The Climateshed Action application, its source code, interface, its compilation and parameterization of response coefficients, and its allocation of county VMT to individual jurisdictions are proprietary and confidential. Except as expressly permitted here or in a separate written agreement, you may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of the Service.

2. License to use the Service

Subject to the Terms of Service, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own planning, educational, and research purposes.

3. Your scenario outputs

You own the specific scenario configurations you create. You may use, share, and publish the files you export from the Service (CSV and .mnote notebooks) for your own non-commercial or internal planning purposes, provided that you:

Attribute the estimates to “Climateshed Action” and retain the citations and methods reference embedded in the export;
Do not present the outputs as an official government inventory, determination, or guidance; and
Do not remove or obscure source attributions for the underlying public data.

Redistribution or resale of gated jurisdiction data, or of the coefficient compilation itself, is not permitted without written authorization.

4. The city VMT figures

The city VMT tool is free to use without an account, and the figures it returns for a jurisdiction are free to quote, cite, and reuse — including in public planning documents — provided that you attribute them to “Climateshed Action” and state the allocation method and year the figure was produced under, since a different method yields a different figure for the same place.

That permission covers looking up the jurisdictions you need. It does not extend to bulk collection: you may not use automated means to harvest the per-jurisdiction data files, circumvent or evade the rate limits that protect them, or assemble, publish, or redistribute a multi-jurisdiction or statewide compilation derived from them. The allocation itself — the division of EMFAC county totals among places, and the weights behind it — is our work product, not public data. Bulk or redistribution rights require our written authorization; contact us at feedback@climateshed.app.

5. Underlying public data

Baselines, effects, and VMT allocations are derived from publicly available sources, including the CA GHG Inventory (USCP v1.2), CARB’s EMFAC model, the CARB/Salon VMT Impact Tool, and public census and administrative data used as allocation weights (including ACS, LEHD/LODES, and vehicle registration counts). Those datasets remain the property of their respective sources and are subject to their own terms; nothing here grants you rights in them beyond what those sources provide. Always cite the primary source, as reflected in the methods document.

6. Open-source components

The Service is built with third-party open-source software (including Next.js and React) used under their respective licenses. Exported notebooks are intended to run with the open-source marimo runtime, which is licensed separately by its authors. Those components remain under their own licenses.

7. Trademarks

“Climateshed” and related branding are our marks. This license does not grant any right to use them, except to provide the attribution described in Sections 3 and 4.

8. No warranty

The Service and all exports are provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind. See the Terms of Service and Disclaimer.

9. Contact

For licensing questions or permission requests, contact feedback@climateshed.app.