We’re delighted to announce that Climate Policy Radar has been named among the world’s most promising projects harnessing artificial intelligence to advance the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.

We are delighted to announce that Climate Policy Radar has been selected as one of the seven new organisations to join the Personio Foundation’s 2023 Impact Portfolio.

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.

We recently experimented with some common natural language processing techniques to turn climate policies and laws into timelines of the dates mentioned within them.

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.

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.

Here at Climate Policy Radar, I’m looking forward to helping create software components in an open way that’s useful for other people with a similar mission, so together we can draw more people into sharing as a community, and avoid reinvention.

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.