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6 March 2024
Tech for Good, Schmidt Futures and getting lost in the sauce: Alanna Flores

For the second instalment of our new series, introducing you to the brilliant people behind Climate Policy Radar, we spoke to Alanna Flores. Alanna spent the last 6 months working in Climate Policy Radar’s data science team as part of Schmidt Futures Technologists for Global Transformation, a programme designed to broaden the pool of technologists working for public benefit. As we bid Alanna farewell, we caught up with her about her time at Climate Policy Radar and the programme.

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20 February 2024
Announcing over $6.8M of new funding for Climate Policy Radar

Climate Policy Radar is thrilled to announce that it has secured over $6.8 million in new funding from multiple funders: the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF), Google.org, Open Society Foundations (OSF), The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Sequoia Climate Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF).

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8 February 2024
Apprenticeships, flight simulators & guide-dogs

In honour of National Apprenticeship Week, we speak to our multifaceted software engineer Katy about climate change, her search for a job with purpose, and the #SkillsForLife she took away from her apprenticeship degree.

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31 October 2023
The value of user research

When we started building Climate Policy Radar, we had lots of assumptions about who our users were and what solutions would help them. In this blog post, we’ll explain why we carry out user research, how we’ve done it so far, what we’re learning, and some of the improvements we’re making in response.

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25 July 2023
New feature: English translation of climate law and policy

Climate Policy Radar’s search tool breaks a critical research barrier by enabling users to search non English law and policy documents, and see English translations of passages that match their search.

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18 July 2023
Augmented Intelligence

Welcome to Climate Policy Radar’s first newsletter! We have been busy over the last few months, and we have some exciting updates to share with you.

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21 June 2023
Using Augmented Intelligence to support the UN Global Stocktake

The first UN Climate Change Global Stocktake is a crucial opportunity for the world to come together and evaluate collective progress towards delivering the landmark Paris Agreement. But with over 170,000 pages of inputs submitted in a range of languages from across the world, understanding and synthesising the rich content within the inputs is a monumental task ahead of the conclusion of the Global Stocktake — only 6 months away, at the COP28 UAE climate summit in Dubai this December.

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10 May 2023
Climate Policy Radar and Grantham Research Institute launch revamped research resource

We've launched our upgraded version of the Climate Change Laws of the World database, offering new tools and features to make it easier to understand and analyse the global climate law and policy landscape.

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5 May 2023
Climate Policy Radar selected in global top 100 AI projects for sustainable development

Climate Policy Radar has been named among the world’s most promising projects harnessing artificial intelligence to advance the United Nations' sustainable development goals.

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4 April 2023
Climate Policy Radar selected for Personio Foundation’s Impact Portfolio

We're delighted to announce that Climate Policy Radar has been selected as one of the seven new organisations to join the Personio Foundation's 2023 Impact Portfolio.

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31 March 2023
Climate Policy Radar launches public product roadmap

We’re delighted to share the Climate Policy Radar Public Product Roadmap - sketching the steps we’re taking today to reach our (very) ambitious future goals.

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15 February 2023
Experimenting to make climate policy documents easier to digest

We recently experimented with some common natural language processing techniques to turn laws and policies into timelines of the dates mentioned within them, a potentially efficient and powerful way to present key information from long law and policy documents.

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8 February 2023
New partnership with Climate Parliament will provide free information resources to support climate legislation

We've partnered with The Climate Parliament to provide legislators and policymakers worldwide with data and knowledge resources to help advance timely, ambitious and effective climate action, and enhance their role in implementing the Paris Agreement.

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27 January 2023
Greening the UK steel industry: behind the headlines

The UK’s two largest steel manufacturers are reportedly set receive a total of £600 million to incentivise the decarbonisation of the sector. We explore how move speaks to the extent to which climate policies are interdependent on a global level.

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23 January 2023
Working on climate change as a software engineer

Climate Policy Radar’s Peter Hooper tells us about work and life as a software engineer in climate change, and the opportunities for open source to propel technology development.

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15 December 2022
Hacking AI for climate policy

We teamed up with OpenAI for their first hackathon dedicated to climate change. Explore how teams came up with ideas to hack artificial intelligence for climate policy.

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8 December 2022
Being a data scientist in climate policy

What’s it like to work in climate data science? Meet Climate Policy Radar data scientist Kalyan Dutia, who shares his love of linguistics, the opportunities and challenges of responsible artificial intelligence, and exciting developments in the field of machine learning for climate change.

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23 November 2022
PDF Parsing: Using AI to turn (messy) climate policy documents into (readable) structured data

We're developing a computer vision-based model that can automate the processing of PDFs. Find out how we're building it and its applications across climate policy and beyond.

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10 November 2022
New partnership launches AI-powered global climate law and policy database

Climate Policy Radar, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University have partnered to offer upgraded open data resources on global climate laws, policies and legal cases.

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1 November 2022
Climate Policy Radar at COP27- where to find us

We’re headed to Egypt for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27 and related events - come and join us!

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20 September 2022
Building natural language search for climate change laws and policies

Our goal is to make it easier and faster to interrogate climate change laws and policies. This blog post details how and why we designed the search function of Climate Policy Radar's app the way we did, using natural language search.

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31 August 2022
“I felt a renewed passion for helping solve climate change” - CPR welcomes first work experience student

Bella Grimsey joined CPR for a day of work experience, packed with policy, PDF parsing and planning.

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4 August 2022
Climate Policy Radar launches public changelog

Openness and transparency are the kingpins of Climate Policy Radar, which is why we’ve launched a public changelog so that anyone and everyone can follow what we’re doing in the climate tech space and the progress we’re making.

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20 July 2022
Climate Policy Radar features in tech.eu

Climate Policy Radar has nabbed the spotlight in tech.eu, an online publication dedicated to European technology ecosystems.

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19 July 2022
Climate Policy Radar launches its global climate policy database

We’re delighted to announce that we've released the first version of our first product, Climate Policy Radar (Alpha), allowing you to search through the full text of thousands of climate laws, policies and strategies worldwide.

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7 March 2022
Lisa Long joins Climate Policy Radar Board

We are delighted that Lisa Long has joined Climate Policy Radar board as a non-executive director.

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4 March 2022
A treaty on plastic pollution - what can we find in national policy documents?

Climate Policy Radar want to support the search for solutions to the crisis of plastic pollution, using our tool for searching across the full text of thousands of policy documents.

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17 February 2022
Epic Sprints and…Comedy Gigs? The Experience of a Non-Tech Person in a Climate Tech Start-Up

When I joined Climate Policy Radar back at the start of December last year, I knew pretty much nothing about tech products, natural language processing, data science, product management, or the tech startup world in general. With a PhD on international climate negotiations at the UNFCCC, and some time in DG CLIMA of the European Commission, my background is mostly in academia, with a little in the public sector.

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9 December 2021
Climate Policy Radar is back from Glasgow's COP26

We went to COP26 in Glasgow ready to share our work on our prototype, join conversations and learn from the wealth of knowledge and perspectives on offer there. Now back in the office and fired up from the experience, here’s what I gained from the summit.

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2 November 2021
Announcing CPR's partnership with WORLD Policy Analysis Center

We are excited to announce today that Climate Policy Radar is partnering with WORLD Policy Analysis Center.

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29 October 2021
Climate Policy Radar at COP26

We are going to Glasgow for COP26, and we'll be taking part in some exciting events and conversations about data, AI and evidence-based climate policy, sharing our vision and collecting inspiration, new ideas and allies..

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10 February 2021
Announcing Climate Policy Radar - on a mission to map and analyse the global climate policy landscape

Climate Policy Radar is a climate data start-up on a mission to map and analyse the climate policy landscape globally, to support evidence-based policymaking and investment to drive the transition to a low carbon, resilient world.