Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit working to put the world’s climate and nature evidence within reach of the people who need it: governments, negotiators, researchers, and local leaders.
Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit working to put the world's climate and nature evidence within reach of the people who need it: governments, negotiators, researchers, and local leaders.
The laws, policies, and finance commitments that shape climate action are scattered across thousands of sources and dozens of languages, in formats no one can search at scale. We make them findable, and open for anyone to build on.
The laws, policies, and finance commitments that shape climate action are scattered across thousands of sources and dozens of languages, in formats no one can search at scale. We make them findable, and open for anyone to build on.
The knowledge exists.
The problem is finding it.
How we started
Founded in 2021, our origins trace back to 2009, on the fringes of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen. There, GLOBE International, a cross-party group of environmentally committed parliamentarians, were struggling to answer fundamental questions about climate legislation: what existed, where, and who had passed it?
The result was a slim, but comprehensive, booklet detailing the climate legislation of 16 countries. Year on year, more countries were added. The book got heavier. Eventually, it covered every single national government globally, and in 2015 became an online database, built on a shoestring budget.
Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit on a mission to support informed action on climate and nature. We build open data infrastructure for climate and nature governance – aggregating and structuring the laws, policies, litigation, and finance data that decision-makers depend on, making them freely accessible to everyone who needs them.
Founded in 2021, our origins trace back to 2009, on the fringes of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen. There, GLOBE International, a cross-party group of environmentally committed parliamentarians, were struggling to answer fundamental questions about climate legislation: what existed, where, and who had passed it? Recognising this lack of information as a global problem, they commissioned the London School of Economics (LSE) to bring it together.
The result was a slim, but comprehensive, booklet detailing the climate legislation of 16 countries. Year on year, more countries were added. The book got heavier. Eventually, it covered every single national government globally, and in 2015 became an online database, built on a shoestring budget.
Useful as this database was, a bigger challenge was growing alongside it. Collecting the laws and making them accessible solved only part of the problem. The documents existed. Making sense of them – at scale, across languages, across sectors – was something else entirely. Climate Policy Radar was built to solve that.
From fragmented data to structured evidence, built for public decision-making
Useful as this database was, a bigger challenge was growing alongside it. Collecting the laws and making them accessible solved only part of the problem. The documents existed. Making sense of them – at scale, across languages,
across sectors – was something else entirely. Climate Policy Radar was built
to solve that.
From the start, we made a deliberate choice to build in the open. Our data, tools, and systems are freely accessible. They can be adopted, integrated, and extended by others: our goal is not to centralise capability within CPR, but to strengthen the wider ecosystem’s ability to generate insight, working from the same trusted evidence base.
Useful as this database was, a bigger challenge was growing alongside it. Collecting the laws and making them accessible solved only part of the problem. The documents existed. Making sense of them – at scale, across languages,
across sectors – was something else entirely. Climate Policy Radar was built
to solve that.
From the start, we made a deliberate choice to build in the open. Our data, tools, and systems are freely accessible. They can be adopted, integrated, and extended by others: our goal is not to centralise capability within CPR, but to strengthen the wider ecosystem’s ability to generate insight, working from the same trusted evidence base.
Where we are today
Climate Policy Radar's data and tools now serve more than one million users a year – policymakers, researchers, legal and finance practitioners, and civil society organisations worldwide.
Climate Policy Radar's data and tools now serve more than one million users a year – policymakers, researchers, legal and finance practitioners, and civil society organisations worldwide.
What next
As the questions grow, so does the map. Climate, nature, and land are governed by separate treaties but play out on the same ground, and acting on one increasingly depends on the others. We are extending the same infrastructure across these connected domains, and starting to look at where climate meets health, trade, and development.
As AI reshapes how people work with information, we are building the next layer: tools that not only find evidence but compare and connect it across sources, held to the same standard as everything we build. Open, traceable, and checked by people, so that in law, policy, and finance you can always see where an answer
came from.
As the questions grow, so does the map. Climate, nature, and land are governed by separate treaties but play out on the same ground, and acting on one increasingly depends on the others. We are extending the same infrastructure across these connected domains, and starting to look at where climate meets health, trade, and development.
As AI reshapes how people work with information, we are building the next layer: tools that not only find evidence but compare and connect it across sources, held to the same standard as everything we build. Open, traceable, and checked by people, so that in law, policy, and finance you can always see where an answer
came from.
CPR Founder Dr Michal Nachmany’s TEDx talk on AI, data, and the future of climate decision-making
CPR Founder Dr Michal Nachmany’s TEDx talk on AI, data, and the future of climate decision-making
Our Values
Moonshot intention
Excellence
Truth seeking
Transparency and openness
Learning and experimenting
Emotional intelligence
Bridge building and collaboration
Moonshot intention
We seek to bring about meaningful change towards a better future, using data effectively to make a difference to people and the planet.
Our Values
Moonshot intention
Truth seeking
Transparency and openness
Learning and experimenting
Emotional intelligence
Bridge building and collaboration
Excellence
Moonshot intention
We seek to bring about meaningful change towards a better future, using data effectively to make a difference to people and the planet.
Our Values
Moonshot intention
Truth seeking
Transparency and openness
Learning and experimenting
Emotional intelligence
Bridge building and collaboration
Excellence
Moonshot intention
We seek to bring about meaningful change towards a better future, using data effectively to make a difference to people and the planet.
OUR SUPPORTERS
Climate Policy Radar is a Community Interest Company (non-profit, 501(c)3 equivalency determination).
We build open, credible databases and AI-powered tools to support informed action on climate and nature.
Get in touch: info@climatepolicyradar.org
Techspace, 140 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DY
Climate Policy Radar is a Community Interest Company (non-profit, 501(c)3 equivalency determination).
We build open, credible databases and AI-powered tools to support informed action on climate and nature.
Get in touch: info@climatepolicyradar.org
Techspace, 140 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DY
Climate Policy Radar is a Community Interest Company (non-profit, 501(c)3 equivalency determination).
We build open, credible databases and AI-powered tools to support informed action on climate and nature.
Get in touch: info@climatepolicyradar.org
Techspace, 140 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DY