Data source: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Climate change-related laws and policies refer to legal documents related to reducing energy demand, promoting low carbon energy supply, low-carbon buildings, carbon pricing, lower industry emissions, tackling deforestation and promoting sustainable land use, other mitigation efforts, research and development, sustainable transportation, enhancing adaptation capabilities, and natural disaster risk management. The dataset only included laws and policies that have been passed by legislative branches or published by executive branches, and that are no longer in draft form. The dataset also captures major amendments to legislation. Laws that are outdated, either because they have been repealed, replaced, or reversed, are not included.
The database distinguishes between Laws or legislative acts (e.g. acts, laws, decree-laws), which were passed by a parliament or equivalent legislative authority, and Policies, or other executive provisions (e.g. presidential decrees, executive orders, regulations, government policies, strategies, or plans), which were published or decreed by the government, president, or equivalent executive authority.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change and the Environment & Sabin Center for Climate Change
Law, 2021)
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ccl_exepp
Number of climate change-related policies or other executive provisions (e.g., presidential decrees, executive orders, regulations, government policies, strategies, or plans), which were published or ...
ccl_leglp
Number of climate change-related laws or legislative acts (e.g. acts, laws, decree-laws), which were passed by a parliament or equivalent legislative authority, in the recorded year.
ccl_lpp
Number of climate change-related laws (legislative acts) and policies (executive provisions) adopted per year.
ccl_mitlpp
Number of laws (legislative acts) or policies (executive provisions) related to climate change mitigation adopted per year. Mitigation laws and policies refer to a legislative or executive disposit ...
ccl_nexep
Cumulative sum of climate change-related policies or other executive provisions (e.g. presidential decrees, executive orders, regulations, government policies, strategies, or plans), which were publis ...
ccl_nlegl
Cumulative sum of climate change-related laws or legislative acts (e.g. acts, laws, decree-laws), which were passed by a parliament or equivalent legislative authority.
ccl_nlp
Cumulative sum of laws (legislative acts) and policies (executive provisions) related to climate change.
ccl_nmitlp
Cumulative sum of laws (legislative acts) and policies (executive provisions) related to climate change mitigation. Mitigation laws and policies refer to a legislative or executive disposition focu ...