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Maths, museums and building bicycles: Harrison Pim

In the latest instalment of our series introducing you to the brilliant people behind Climate Policy Radar, we spoke to our Senior Data Scientist, Harrison. Read more to find out about what a day-in-his-life looks like working at Climate Policy Radar, and why data science is like ‘trying to build a bike in the dark’. 

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Using machine learning to classify climate targets

With the first biennial transparency report (BTR) submissions due to the UNFCCC this year, and the next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2025, all eyes will be on targets: reporting on targets, and progress against them.

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Experts from the World Resources Institute and Climate Policy Radar discuss biodiversity and climate change

Biodiversity loss and human impacts are becoming a key component in climate change conversations. Experts discuss their views on how biodiversity loss and climate change are also impacting the financial sector. The conversation was part of Insider's event "For a Better Future: Bridging Culture, Business, and Climate," which took place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

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Podcast: Totally Sust #3 - Using AI to better understand climate policy data

In the latest episode in TechMarketView's series of Totally Sust podcasts, SustainabilityViews’ lead analyst, Craig Wentworth, interviews Henry Franks (Chief Technology Officer at Climate Policy Radar) about how they're using AI to extract value and meaning from 100,000s pages of climate regulations and data the world over—and what uses this insight is being put to (and by whom).

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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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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. User research has helped us ensure our research tool meets the needs of the people we’re building it for - mainly “knowledge workers”. These are people processing large quantities of messy textual data: policy analysts, academics and risk modellers. 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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Newsletter: 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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Using Augmented Intelligence to support the UN Global Stocktake

The technical phase of the first UN Climate Change Global Stocktake came to a close at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn last week. The Global Stocktake, which is designed to assess the global response to the climate crisis every five years (and this year, for the first time), has seen together over 1,600 document submissions with insights and recommendations from governments and non-governmental organizations around the world to help drive climate action this decade.

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Climate Policy Radar launches public product roadmap

Transparency is one of our core values, and it threads through everything we do and advocate for. We believe that being open about our own processes and priorities will lead us to make decisions that are rooted in the needs of our users and stakeholders. It will enable us to move, iterate, fail, and retry faster, in the face of the growing climate emergency.


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

We’re delighted to announce our partnership 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 the implementation of the Paris Agreement in the run-up to COP28 and beyond.


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Greening the UK steel industry: behind the headlines

The British Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is expected to confirm this week that the UK’s two largest steel manufacturers, British Steel and Tata, will receive a total of £600 million in support to incentivise the decarbonisation of the sector, and will consult on further measures. The move speaks to the extent to which climate policies are interdependent on a global level.


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Hacking AI for climate policy

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.

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

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.

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Climate Policy Radar is back from Glasgow's COP26

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.

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Announcing CPR's partnership with WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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.

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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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Our Origins

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.

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Events

If you're attending any upcoming events and would like to meet the Climate Policy Radar team, reach out.

Upcoming events

London Climate Action Week: The Climate Innovation Forum, Wednesday 25th June

The Climate Innovation Forum returns for the seventh year as a flagship event of London Climate Action Week on Wednesday 25th June. Taking place in London’s Guildhall, this high-level event will bring together 2,000 business leaders, policy makers, investors and senior civil society representatives, to accelerate the speed and scale of our collective efforts in driving climate action.

Embracing the UK Government’s renewed climate ambitions, the Forum will be a key event to facilitate multistakeholder collaboration for increased action and impact on the Road to COP30. With 2025 marking 10 years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement and just five years until the critical deadline of 2030, it will focus on the practical steps required to keep 1.5ºC alive: unblocking delivery barriers, getting investment flowing where it’s needed, and sharing best practice that can be replicated at speed and scale.

Key Speakers Include:

  • Francesco La Camera, Director General, IRENA

  • Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair, UN-Energy.

  • Professor Piers Forster, Chair, Climate Change Committee

  • Hakima El Haite, former Minister of Environment for Morocco and President, Private Sector Pan African Alliance

  • Nick Mabey, Founder, London Climate Action Week

  • Noelia Garcia Nebra, Head of Sustainability, ISO

  • Lord Adair Turner, Chair, Energy Transition Commission

  • Faustine Delasalle, CEO, Mission Possible Partnership

  • Rt Hon Chris Skidmore, Chair, Climate Action Coalition

Past events