Climate Policy Radar’s user snapshot 2025

2025 saw a lot of milestones for CPR.  We launched the Climate Litigation Database with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, the POWER library of offshore wind publications with Ocean Energy Pathway, and Rio Policy Radar for exploring submissions to the Rio Conventions.  

Here are our 2025 user headlines…

Half a million users

This is almost double from previous years, largely thanks to the launch of the Climate Litigation Database at the end of September!

1.4 million pageviews

That’s double last year’s figure

Users cumulatively spent 1,620 days using our tools–that’s almost 4½ years!

What were people searching for?

Users made over 140,000 searches this year.  

• With the addition of the Climate Litigation Database interest in greenwashing and corporate accountability has tripled this year–users are searching for documents and cases related to Exxon, Shell, TotalEnergies, and more.  

• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change in July sparked interest in terms like ICJ, advisory opinion, and obligations of states as people looked for the case documents

• Users regularly searched for geographies like Brazil, India, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and hundreds more

• People also wanted to know about lots of specific sectors and concepts like agriculture, renewable energy, nature and biodiversity, justice, and migration

Most popular documents

These were the most viewed climate litigation and law and policy documents this year:

Litigation:

1. Milieudefensie et al. v. Royal Dutch Shell plc.

2. Urgenda Foundation v State of the Netherlands 

3. Luciano Lliuya v. RWE AG

4. Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland

5. Neubauer, et al. v. Germany

Law and Policy:

1. Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG, latest version EEG 2023) (Germany)

2. Nigeria’s Climate Change Act

3. 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 Long-Term Objectives (China)

4. Climate Act (Klimaatwet) (Netherlands)

5. The Climate Act (Denmark)

Our users around the world

We had tens to hundreds of thousands of users from every continent (bar Antarctica–maybe in 2026!). North America jumped up to right behind Europe with the Climate Litigation Database’s large US user base.  We had users from almost every country in the world.