Climate Policy Radar
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What is Climate Policy Radar?
Climate Policy Radar is a non-profit organization building open databases and AI-powered tools to support informed climate, nature, and development action. The Climate Policy Radar app is a live, searchable database containing 30,000+ national climate laws, policies, UN submissions, NDCs, BTRs, climate finance reports, and litigation documents from every country in the world.
The tool uses natural language processing and machine learning to make millions of pages of dense climate documents full-text searchable and automatically translated into English. It features smart filters, detailed country profiles, sector profiles, comparison tools, and Topics that package expert knowledge with related terms and regional variations. NEW for COP30 is the Rio Policy Radar, which brings together submissions to the UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD conventions.
Climate Policy Radar is designed for policymakers who want to explore climate interventions and identify best practices, researchers modeling policy impact and evaluating strategies, private sector professionals integrating laws into risk modeling and investment decisions, and civil society organizations guiding voting choices and strengthening strategic legal cases. The tool is open, free to everyone, and built on values of transparency, openness, and radical collaboration.
Climate Policy Radar pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Climate Policy Radar is completely free and open to everyone. As a non-profit organization, they provide open data and open source tools at no cost. There are no paid plans or premium tiers. The tool is democratized access to information, promoting climate justice by ensuring those who need data most can access it without paying. API access will also be free when it launches.
Climate Policy Radar pros
- 30,000+ climate laws, policies, and UN documents in one searchable database
- Full-text search across millions of pages of climate documents
- Automatic translation into English from all languages
- Smart filters for targeted document retrieval
- Detailed country profiles for each nation
- Sector profiles for industry-specific analysis
- Comparison tools to compare policies across geographies
- 100+ Topics packaging expert knowledge with related terms
- Includes corporate transition plans from 500 highest-emitting public corporations
- Climate litigation database with 2,000+ court cases
- Rio Policy Radar for UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD submissions
- Climate finance database built with 4 major Multilateral Climate Funds
- Open data and open source approach
- Free to use for everyone
- Non-profit organization with transparency values
- API coming soon for integration with other systems
- Topics Explorer for searching extracted climate targets
- Targets Comparer for comparing targets by geography or topic
- Updated regularly with new laws from 193 countries
- Trusted by governments, researchers, international agencies, and businesses worldwide
Climate Policy Radar cons
- API not yet available (coming soon)
- No paid tiers or premium features for advanced needs
- Limited to national-level documents primarily
- No mobile app mentioned, web interface only
- Machine translation may have accuracy limitations
- Extracted data depends on ML model quality
- No offline access mentioned
- Limited customization options for users
- No explicit data export functionality mentioned
- New features like Rio Policy Radar still launching
Frequently asked questions about Climate Policy Radar
What is Climate Policy Radar?
Climate Policy Radar is a non-profit organization building open databases and AI-powered research tools so people can discover, understand, and generate data-driven insights on climate law and policy. The main product is the Climate Policy Radar app, a live searchable database of 30,000+ national climate laws, policies, UN submissions, NDCs, BTRs, climate finance reports, and litigation documents from every country.
Is Climate Policy Radar free to use?
Yes, Climate Policy Radar is completely open and free to everyone. As a non-profit organization committed to open data and open source principles, they democratize access to climate policy information and do not charge for their tools or database access.
What documents are included in the database?
The database includes 30,000+ national-level climate laws and policies, over 2,000 Global Stocktake submissions, NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions), BTRs (Biennial Transparency Reports), climate finance project documents, litigation documents with 2,000+ court cases, corporate transition plans from 500 highest-emitting public corporations, industry reports, government policies, strategies, and submissions to the UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD conventions.
How does the search work?
Climate Policy Radar uses smart full-text semantic search to explore millions of pages of climate documents. All documents are automatically translated into English, and searches in English return documents from all languages. The tool features smart filters, detailed country profiles, and 100+ curated Topics that package expert knowledge including related terms and regional variations.
Who should use Climate Policy Radar?
The tool is designed for policymakers exploring climate interventions and identifying best practices, researchers modeling policy impact and evaluating strategies, private sector professionals integrating laws into risk modeling and investment decisions, civil society organizations guiding voting choices and strengthening legal cases, international organizations, and small island states with limited resources needing accessible climate policy data.
What is the Rio Policy Radar?
Rio Policy Radar is a NEW tool launching at COP30 that provides a shared space for country submissions from the three Rio Conventions: UNFCCC (climate), CBD (biodiversity), and UNCCD (land degradation). It allows users to explore synergies amongst national plans addressing these three critical interlinked issues, with Topics features on desertification, adaptation, food security, subsidies, and indigenous peoples.
How often is the database updated?
The database is continuously updated by regularly scraping the web for new laws from 193 countries. Climate Policy Radar builds and trains machine learning models that automatically read and extract text from PDFs and websites, enabling them to structure and share information from thousands of documents as they are published.
What AI and NLP technology does Climate Policy Radar use?
Climate Policy Radar pioneers the application of natural language processing to climate law and policy, training language models to transform text into structured data. They use machine learning models to automatically read and extract text from PDFs and websites, identify and synthesize useful concepts like regulations, targets, and technologies across thousands of documents, and make previously unstructured, siloed data readable and accessible.
Can I access the data through an API?
An API is coming soon that will allow organizations to use Climate Policy Radar's data in their own systems. The API will be part of their open data commitment, enabling integration with other climate, nature, and development data systems as part of the Transition Digital infrastructure.
What is Transition Digital?
Transition Digital is a nonprofit collaboration founded by Climate Policy Radar, TransitionZero, Clay, and Radiant Earth to create shared digital infrastructure connecting climate, nature, and development data. Climate Policy Radar hosts the secretariat, building a modular platform with a trusted data app and rapid-build toolkit. At COP30, it will debut its first prototype focused on Brazil, showing how open, connected intelligence can transform national climate action.