In November, we teamed up with OpenAI for their first hackathon dedicated to climate change. Its aspiration was to explore how AI – specifically language models – could help drive ambitious climate action, drawing parallels with what we do at Climate Policy Radar. We threw data into the ring by building and sharing an open repository on GitHub of all the data we have in our searchable open database: over 3,000 documents covering climate laws and policies from every country.

Meet Climate Policy Radar data scientist Kalyan Dutia. He 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.

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

PDFs were designed for creating and viewing flexibly formatted documents without the user having to worry about which device, operating system or browser they were using. This versatility revolutionised information sharing. Yet the lack of formatting constraints made extracting structured information nearly impossible. As most climate-relevant law and policy documents are PDFs, this presents a challenge to our goal of making them fully searchable.

We’re headed to Egypt for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27 and related events - find our activities below and keep an eye out for new developments.

There is no guide book to tackling climate change. So often, the best way to figure out what works and what doesn’t is to learn from evidence, so that decision-makers can replicate successful decisions and avoid failed ones.

At a time when doom and gloom dominate the discourse, they lead, inspire, and teach. So when 17-year-old student Bella got in touch with CPR seeking inspiration and wanting to shadow us for a day, we knew we wanted to swing our doors wide open:

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.

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

We’re delighted to announce that we have released the first version of our first product, Climate Policy Radar (Alpha), which allows searching through the full text of thousands of climate laws, policies and strategies worldwide.

We are delighted that Lisa Long - a serial entrepreneur, non-executive director, and private equity advisor - has joined Climate Policy Radar’s board as a non-executive director.

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.

CPR 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.

We are excited to announce today that Climate Policy Radar (CPR) is partnering with WORLD Policy Analysis Center to advance joint work to map and analyse the global climate policy landscape and situate in a broader context of social economic and environmental legislation and policy. We will be collaborating with WORLD to develop tools to bring together all the world’s laws and policies that matter to climate change mitigation and adaptation across an array of domains, in a readily accessible way.

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..

Climate Policy Radar's origin can be traced back to 2009, on the fringes of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen. At that time, 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.

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.