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We are a
climate AI startup

Pioneering the application of natural language processing to climate law and policy, and championing open science and radical collaboration, to support informed and evidence-based decision-making.

We are on a mission to map and analyse the global climate law and policy landscape

By supporting evidence-based laws and policies, our vision is to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, resilient and just world.

  • We are led by a team of international climate change law and policy and machine learning experts, bridging the climate and tech worlds.

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    Climate Policy Radar is built on a decade of experience leading research and resource development on global climate laws and policies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving policymakers, researchers and civil society worldwide.

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    We believe in collaboration, not competition, and we actively seek out partners who share our ambition and values.

Our Values

Moonshot intention with grounded urgent action

We seek to bring about meaningful change towards a better future, using data effectively to make a difference to people and planet.

In particular, we want to influence and change the way evidence informs policy and investment decisions. While this is a marathon, and we’re in it for the long haul, the urgency of the challenge means we are committed to sprints and to achieving short term goals, without losing sight of our long term mission.

Excellence

We strive to be excellent at what we do and how we do it.

Holding ourselves to the highest standard of research and development, operations, management and engagement with our stakeholders.

Truth Seeking

We will be honest and act with integrity in the data we produce and the way that we communicate what it means.

We will make an active effort to avoid bias in all our practices and importantly, in the way we collect, curate and communicate data. We will be dispassionate about any given course of action as long as there is evidence to show its effectiveness - there are no silver bullets.

Transparency

We will make our data, analyses and platform available for others to use and build on.

We will be open about how we work and what we do, and explain our data and analyses clearly using language that is readily understood by our target audiences. We will be leaders in open sourcing climate data and contributing to open source efforts globally.

Learning and experimenting

We seek to continuously learn and improve ourselves and our organisation and to advance a culture of evidence-based decision making

Through constant learning from others’ successes, mistakes and through innovation and experimentation where things have not been tried before. We embrace failure, will interrogate our mistakes openly, and try and improve on our weaknesses.

Emotional intelligence

We are committed to intelligent and empathic communication with our team, stakeholders, and audiences.

We will be honest, reliable, approachable, and practice generosity and integrity in all our dealings with others, both in Climate Policy Radar and externally.

Bridge building and collaboration

We take a radical collaboration approach to our work - both internally and externally. We do not view other people and organisations as competitors, but rather as allies.

Everyone in the team will contribute their unique skills, insights and work with others to maximise synergies. We will build links with the broad climate change community, and collaborate and integrate with other climate change data providers and organisations.

Team

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Michal Nachmany, PhD, FRSA

Founder and CEO
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Henry Franks, PhD

CTO
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Callie Coop

People and Operations
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Mark Cottam

Data Engineering
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Kalyan Dutia

Data Science
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Patrick Fawbert Mills

Software Engineering
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Sarah Goodenough

Policy
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Peter Hooper, PhD

Software Engineering
Headshot of Stefan Lavelle

Stefan Lavelle

Data Science
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Alan Wright

Product Management
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Joel Wright, PhD

Software Engineering

Interested in joining our team?

Board

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Professor Sam Fankhauser

Non-executive Director
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Lisa Long

Non-Executive Director

Advisory

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Graham Gannon

Director of Engineering Global Sales/Marketing Platforms, Google
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Dr Jody Heyman

Founding Director at WORLD Policy Analysis Center; Distinguished Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Luskin School of Public Affairs, Geffen School of Medicine
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Dr Angel Hsu

Founder & Director of the Data-Driven Lab, Assistant Professor, UNC, Chapel Hill
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David Jensen

Head of Digital Transformation Task Force United Nations Environment Programme
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Annett Moehner

Head of the Global Stocktake process, UNFCCC
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Dr Shehnaaz Moosa

Director, South South North; Director of the CDKN programme
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Dr Joana Setzer

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, LSE.
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Dr Rory Sullivan

CEO, Chronos Sustainability; Chief Technical Adviser, Transition Pathway Initiative
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Gareth Visagie

Chief Architect, Snyk
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Baroness Bryony Worthington

Environmental campaigner and life peer in the UK House of Lords.

Our Funders

We are not-for-profit as we believe people shouldn’t need to pay for the data they need to bring more effective and informed climate action. If you’d like to support our mission, get in touch.

Our Partners

We work with a range of partners to collect and expose more data, define research and development priorities, and provide tools to generate policy insights. We’re always open to collaborate - if you have an idea and want to work with us, get in touch.