We are on a mission to organise, analyse and democratise the world’s law and policy data    

Climate Policy Radar is a non-profit organisation building open databases and research tools so people can discover and understand complex information, in particular long-text documents, on climate, nature and development. Our data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. Harnessing data science and AI, and pioneering the application of natural language processing to this domain, our work renders previously unstructured, siloed data more readable and accessible.

Our journey

Worked with the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law to relaunch their Climate Litigation Database, doubling the number of documents on our app to 30,000.
Began hosting the secretariat for Transition Digital
Announced fundraise to continue developing our products and services
Searches in English now return documents from all languages for increased accessibility
Launched the Global Stocktake Explorer at Bonn, adding 1700 UNFCCC documents to our tool
Climate Policy Radar is integrated with climate-laws.org, enhancing its capabilities
First version of our first product, Climate Policy Radar (Alpha) is released
Announced partnership with Climate Parliament, providing data to help advance climate action in the run-up to COP28
Climate Policy Radar is incorporated as Community Interest Company
First prototype presented at COP26 in Glasgow
Now covering 99 countries, the Global Climate Legislation Study is published as an online database
The first GLOBE Climate Legislation Study is published, in print

Our origins

On the fringes of the 2009 COP15 conference in Copenhagen, GLOBE International—a cross-party network of parliamentarians focused on improving governance for sustainable development, founded by the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry—struggled to answer fundamental questions about climate legislation: what was being done, where, and by whom. Recognising their lack of resources for effective peer learning, they commissioned the London School of Economics to create the first GLOBE Climate Legislation Study, a comprehensive book detailing the climate legislation of 16 countries.

Our team

Our values

Read more about our values, and how we live by them here.

Moonshot intention

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

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

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

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

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