Policy & regulation trackers

Who is doing what, and whether it adds up.

12 independent trackers that hold climate policy and pledges to account: national ambition, net-zero commitments, climate laws and carbon pricing. The hub points to each tracker rather than restating its findings.

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Climate Action Tracker

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Climate Analytics & NewClimate Institute

Independent scientific analysis tracking government climate action against the Paris Agreement, country by country.

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Net Zero Tracker

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NewClimate, Oxford, Data-Driven EnviroLab, ECIU

Tracks net-zero pledges across countries, regions, cities and the world’s largest companies, with an integrity assessment.

Cross-cuttingClimate financeGlobal
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Climate Change Laws of the World

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Grantham Research Institute, LSE

The reference database of climate laws, policies and litigation across nearly every country, searchable and regularly updated.

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World Bank Carbon Pricing Dashboard

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World Bank

The authoritative tracker of carbon taxes and emissions-trading systems worldwide, with prices, coverage and revenues.

Carbon marketsClimate financeGlobal
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IEA Policies Database

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International Energy Agency

Thousands of energy and climate policies and measures from around the world, filterable by country, sector and technology.

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Climate Policy Radar

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Climate Policy Radar

An open, AI-powered database making the world’s climate laws, policies and UNFCCC submissions searchable at scale.

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ICVCM Assessment Status

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Integrity Council for the VCM

The live register of which crediting programmes are CCP-Eligible and which methodology categories are CCP-Approved, the public state of the integrity assessment.

Carbon marketsGlobal
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Climate Focus VCM Dashboard

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Climate Focus

A monthly dashboard of voluntary-carbon-market issuances, retirements, prices and registrations across a dozen crediting standards.

Carbon marketsClimate financeGlobal
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SBTi Target Dashboard

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Science Based Targets initiative

A public, downloadable register of companies with validated science-based targets, updated weekly.

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Global Coal Plant Tracker

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Global Energy Monitor

A biannually updated database identifying every known coal power unit and proposal worldwide since 2010; as of 2025 only 32 countries were still proposing or building new coal capacity, down from 75 in 2014.

EnergyGlobal
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Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report

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IEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank and WHO

The joint annual monitoring of universal energy access, renewables and efficiency toward SDG7; the 2025 edition reported 666 million people still without electricity, 19 million fewer than the prior year.

EnergyGlobal South
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UNEP Adaptation Gap Report

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UN Environment Programme

UNEP’s annual measure of the adaptation shortfall; the 2025 edition, Running on Empty, put developing-country adaptation costs at $310bn a year by 2035 against just $26bn in international public finance recorded in 2023.

Adaptation & resilienceClimate financeGlobal South
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