We’re building the world’s largest open knowledge-base for climate law and policy

We do this by:

  • Creating a one-stop shop for climate data

    Our data pipeline aggregates information from dispersed sources. We extract and translate text from all languages, and store this data for seamless access and analysis. Our database includes 5000+ national-level climate laws and policies and more than 2000 documents related to the global stocktake.

  • Helping people make sense of that data

    We train large language models to transform masses of text into structured data. We develop tools to identify and synthesise useful concepts (like regulations, targets and technologies) across thousands of documents. Our tools and databases include a search interface, country and sector profiles, comparison tools, automatic summary and compilation of data, data visualisations and APIs.

  • Working within our ecosystem to accelerate impact

    We work with a wide and diverse range of stakeholders to strengthen our collective impact. Climate Policy Radar convenes the only community of climate Natural Language Processing researchers and practitioners, which works to break new ground to scale the application of AI in the climate space.

Roadmap

Our Product Roadmap is public. You can use it to see the progress we’ve already made, what we’re working on now and what we might work on in the future. Being open about our own processes and priorities enables us to make decisions that are rooted in the needs of our users and stakeholders. If you have any feedback, let us know here.

Creating a ‘one-stop-shop’ for data

Search the full text of 5000+ climate laws, policies and UNFCCC submissions from every country

We build and train machine learning models that can automatically read and extract text from PDFs and websites, enabling us to structure and share information from thousands of documents.

Open data and open source

  • Democratises access to information and promotes climate justice, as often those who need access to data the most are least able to pay for it.

  • Provides a springboard for innovation, accelerating research efforts and catalysing collaboration.

  • Corrects biases: by opening up our models to scrutiny and ensuring that we remain neutral and impartial

Helping people make sense of data

Introducing genAI for climate laws and policies

Our single document RAG prototype includes climate laws, policies and international commitments. It allows you to interrogate a policy document, orders of magnitude faster than with ctrl+F. It lays the groundwork for populating policy documents with useful, actionable information.

Our users

Our tools are open and free to everyone, but we believe some of the highest-impact users are:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has great, untapped potential for climate impact.

Researchers and practitioners are sharing their work and ideas in an online community that Climate Policy Radar convenes. If you’re working on Climate NLP and would like to join this community, please reach out.