The Paris Agreement, related intergovernmental decisions, and transnational climate change governance initiatives mobilize data as a means of measuring, managing, and addressing changing climatic conditions. At the same time, the Paris Agreement formally acknowledges the human rights implications of the unfolding climate crisis. Given the reliance on data and rights in climate change governance, the aim of this article is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes how processes of datafication at transnational and local levels promise, yet struggle, to render the climate governable. Secondly, the article critically reflects on the capacity of human rights to complement datafied governance processes meaningfully – specifically, in what ways rights can (and cannot) alleviate local concerns regarding datafication. Methodologically, the article develops a perspective that foregrounds situated sense-making and experience in place. It is based on an empirical case study of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, a transnational alliance of cities that have committed to working towards the goals of the Paris Agreement; and it engages with ethnographic literature that conceptualizes rights as lived forms of meaning-making, articulation, struggle, and resistance. Attending to place, the article confronts problematic assumptions about the universality, neutrality, and representativeness of data and rights, raising critical questions about their capacity to ‘govern’ climate change.

《巴黎协定》、相关政府间决策和跨国气候变化治理举措将数据作为衡量、管理和应对不断变化的气候条件的手段。与此同时，《巴黎协定》正式承认正在发生的气候危机对人权的影响。鉴于气候变化治理对数据和权利的依赖，本文的目的是双重的。首先，它分析了跨国和地方层面的数据化进程如何承诺但仍难以实现气候可控。其次，本文批判性地反思了人权有意义地补充数据化治理流程的能力——具体来说，权利可以（或不能）减轻当地对数据化的担忧。从方法论上来说，本文提出了一种观点，将意义建构和经验置于适当的位置。它基于对全球气候与能源市长盟约的实证案例研究，这是一个致力于实现《巴黎协定》目标的跨国城市联盟；它与民族志文学相结合，将权利概念化为意义建构、表达、斗争和抵抗的生动形式。文章着眼于地方，面对关于数据和权利的普遍性、中立性和代表性的有问题的假设，提出了关于它们“治理”气候变化的能力的关键问题。