Climate Policy Radar's Open Knowledge Graph (Tutorials Track)
Kalyan Dutia (Climate Policy Radar); Anne Sietsma (Climate Policy Radar); Julie Saigusa (Climate Policy Radar); Harrison Pim (Climate Policy Radar)
Abstract
Climate Policy Radar (CPR) helps people access and understand vast amounts of climate documents: laws, policies, NDCs, corporate transition plans, litigation documents, reports by statutory advisory bodies and industry bodies, and more. This tutorial is a dataset tutorial for: its open data: the full text and metadata of all of these documents, which we published open source. its 'concept store'. Climate documents are often long and filled with technical jargon. This makes them particularly difficult to analyse. The concept store helps with this, giving users access to a rich web of expert-defined concepts and their relationships. By linking this expert knowledge of climate change to the extensive curated database of climate documents, we show you how to create a climate policy knowledge graph. This can then be used in turn to analyse the global policy landscape. After this tutorial you'll be able to download and understand CPR's data (text and concepts), use the structure of our knowledge graph to train some simple but powerful classifiers, and do some introductory analysis of real climate policy documents.