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.

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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:

  • Policymakers

    Explore what climate change interventions are being implemented where and by whom, and identify best practices to shape policy design.

  • Researchers

    Identify different climate change policies, policy instruments and climate targets worldwide, model their potential impact and carry out cost-benefit analyses, and evaluate the effectiveness of climate change strategies.

  • Private sector

    Integrate relevant laws and policies into risk modelling, getting a better understanding of the regulatory environment, guiding smarter investment decisions, climate finance deployment and responsible lending.

  • Civil society

    Guide voting choices, question decision making, highlight insufficient action and suggest alternative approaches. Strengthen strategic legal cases to challenge governments and corporations and claim damages for the consequences of climate change.

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.

  • "As we tackle the huge policy design challenge needed to implement Paris, Climate Policy Radar <span style="color: #1F93FF;">provides cutting edge tools</span> to ensure new instruments are built on the best data and global insight."

    Dr Charlie Ogilvie OBE, former Director of Strategy, COP26,
    and Executive Director of Ocean Energy Pathways

  • "We have all the data, but we don't have it <span style="color: #1F93FF;">all in one place and searchable.</span> This will make my life so much easier."

    Representative of Maldives Government Climate Change Office,
    on the Global Stocktake Explorer

  • "Climate Policy Radar is <span style="color: #1F93FF;">transforming the landscape</span> when it comes to quick, easy and accurate access to climate policies around the world."

    Dr Gabrielle Walker,
    Co-Founder, Rethinking Removals and CUR8

  • "Climate Policy Radar’s tools are <span style="color: #1F93FF;">a much needed and valuable effort</span> for the whole research community."

    Tanja Beck,
    German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

  • "The team at Climate Policy Radar are doing something <span style="color: #1F93FF;">highly innovative and extremely important."

    Dr Fergus Green,
    Lecturer in Political Theory & Public Policy, UCL

  • "I use Climate Policy Radar to look for emerging examples of how regulators and policymakers are addressing the issue of ‘double counting’ of emission reductions. The <span style="color: #1F93FF;">speed and relevance</span> of the results was impressive."

    Legal Director, DLA Piper

  • "This is a <span style="color: #1F93FF;">really good source,</span> especially for small island states who don't have much resource."

    Policy Analyst, Tuvalu,
    on the Global Stocktake Explorer

  • "Climate Policy Radar has been <span style="color: #1F93FF;">an invaluable tool.</span> The ease of its interface and navigation makes it our go-to platform to inform decisions with the confidence that we are using the most accurate and up-to-date policy data."

    Seán Boyle,
    Co-Founder, Unitmode