Climate Policy Radar’s latest annual report looks back on a year of building open data infrastructure and AI-powered tools that support informed action on climate and nature. This past year, more than a million people across 200+ countries and regions used our tools, searching 35,000+ laws, policies, finance documents, litigation records, UN submissions, and more. We launched new tools, expanded our data coverage, rebuilt our infrastructure to scale, and helped governments, international institutions, and researchers find and use the evidence they need.
The year in numbers
1m+ users (almost double last year) in 200+ countries and regions
1.9m+ sessions exploring the data
35,000+ documents, with more than 2 million pages of searchable text
21 institutions entrusting their data to us (up from 12)
109 expert-defined Topics, searchable beyond keywords
“This is like magic. For my last assignment, we had to analyse a large number of submissions. Now we can do this in seconds.”
Modou Cham, Principal Climate Change Officer, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources (MECCNAR), The Gambia
Highlights
Impact across the ecosystem: Our tools supported work from the UN climate and biodiversity secretariats to national ministries in The Gambia and the UK, parliamentarians across Sub-Saharan Africa, and negotiators from Botswana to Honduras. Users span climate, nature, energy, law, and development, from Sustainable Energy for All mapping clean cooking policy gaps to the Global Green Growth Institute reviewing just transition plans across the G20.
New tools: Rio Policy Radar brings national submissions to the three Rio Conventions together, which the CBD Secretariat used for its first global review of progress on biodiversity targets. The Climate Council Report Library, built with the International Climate Councils Network, lets the statutory bodies that advise governments on climate draw on each other’s work, and opens that evidence to all.
Programmatic access: Our API, MCP server, and data warehouse are now live and ready for first users, free for non-profit use, so others can query the full dataset and build their own tools on it.
Shaping responsible AI: As AI increasingly informs decisions on climate and nature, we’ve focused on the evidence underneath it: domain-specific tools where every answer traces to its source, tested against judgements by policy specialists, with evaluation built before the product. Our founder, Michal Nachmany, led the AI stream at the IPCC’s Workshop on Methods of Assessment, and made the case on the TEDx stage that trustworthy AI for high-stakes decisions depends on how tools are designed, and who they’re designed for.
Training and convening: Our team trained and provided demos to 700+ people across countries including Kenya, Honduras, Ukraine, and Sierra Leone. We hosted sessions at COP30 and the June climate meetings, taught a tutorial at NeurIPS, spoke at PyData London and Manchester, and marked five years of CPR during London Climate Action Week by bringing together partners working across climate, nature, development, and trade (followed by birthday cake).
"It was tremendously helpful to be able to search documents across the Rio conventions with CPR to identify how aspects of the KMGBF are addressed at national level through the climate and desertification agreements, as well as through the CBD itself."
Tim Hirsch, Lead author of the Global Report on Collective Progress in the implementation of the KMGBF
On the horizon
Next, we’re moving from finding documents to answering questions across them. We’re expanding what the data covers, with subnational policy and deeper nature coverage, and opening more routes in. And having supported the first Global Stocktake, we’ll be a data partner to the second.
None of this was built alone. Thank you to our collaborators, supporters, and everyone who uses our tools.
