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Climate Policy Radar

Climate policy radar

Climate Policy Radar (CPR) is an interactive online climate policy and legal document exploration platform and an important open knowledge base of climate (and increasingly, nature) documents. It enables users to search, analyse, and compare climate laws, policies, adaptation plans, UNFCCC submissions, corporate disclosures, litigation records, climate finance projects, and other governance documents across jurisdictions worldwide. Using data science, natural language processing, and semantic search, CPR transforms fragmented documents into structured, searchable knowledge, helping users identify policy concepts, themes, and relationships across a large collection of climate-related documents. The platform supports policy intelligence, knowledge discovery, and governance analysis by enabling decision-makers to access, analyse, and act on climate policy information from a shared knowledge base. It functions primarily as a policy and governance analysis tool rather than a climate risk or adaptation modelling tool.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Enter keywords, concepts or questions related to climate and nature policy.
  • Search laws, policies, adaptation plans, UNFCCC submissions, litigation records, climate-finance projects and corporate disclosures.
  • Filter documents by jurisdiction, document type, topic and other available criteria.
  • Use semantic search to identify related concepts and connections across documents.
  • Explore documents in their original language or through available English machine translation.

Output

  • Searchable climate and nature policy documents.
  • Structured information extracted from laws, policies, plans and other governance records.
  • Search results connecting related policy concepts, themes and documents.
  • Evidence for comparative policy and governance analysis.
  • Open data suitable for reuse with attribution.

Use it to

  • Find adaptation policies, strategies and plans across jurisdictions.
  • Compare how countries and institutions address a climate-policy issue.
  • Identify relevant policy concepts and connections that may not be captured by exact keyword searches.
  • Review historical, current and forward-looking climate-governance documents.
  • Support policy research, monitoring and knowledge discovery.
  • Locate policy examples and governance approaches that may inform adaptation-policy development.

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Helps users find and compare climate-policy evidence that would otherwise be dispersed across thousands of documents and websites. Its semantic search and knowledge graph are valuable when users do not know the exact terminology used in different countries or documents, because related concepts can be surfaced across policy domains. The platform is particularly useful for policy benchmarking, identifying examples and tracking governance developments. It is a policy-intelligence resource rather than a climate-risk model, and its coverage depends on documents being publicly available or provided by partners.

Used in

  • Global analysis of more than 35,000 climate and nature documents, including laws, policies, UN submissions, litigation records and climate-finance projects.
  • Comparison of adaptation plans and climate-governance documents across jurisdictions worldwide.
  • Review of historical UNFCCC submissions, active laws and policies, and forward-looking plans and nationally determined contributions.
  • Policy and governance analysis using a knowledge graph that links related climate and nature concepts across documents.
  • Reuse of Climate Policy Radar’s open database as digital public infrastructure under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Metadata

User Group
Commission services and/or AgenciesTransboundary networksNational authorities
Geographic coverage
Global
Spatial resolution

N/A

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Step 3: Identifying Adaptation Options
Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversity protectionBuildings
Climate hazards
Non specific
Type of outputs
Reports and decision supportDatasets and indicators
Temporality of data
Historical/pastPresentForward-looking
Language
English
Accessibility and usability
Moderate

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