The exploratory work is conducted in a Jupyter Notebook, which requires Python3 and jupyter Notebook to be installed. To install these and get set up follow these steps:

1. Install python3.9 using pyenv
2. Create a local virtual environment for the repo and activate it, using

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the necessary dependencies by running

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start a jupyter notebook instance to access the exploratory work

jupyter notebook

The folder data_sources contains the data sources used in the exploratory work. At the moment there is only a ONS dataset, but this can be extended with other sources or different revisions of the atmos_emis_ghg.xlsx dataset to explore changes over time - useful for understanding any potential changes in methodologies.

The exploratory work is completed in the UKNetZero.ipynb file, which can be conveniently exported to a PDF file.