The Climate Policy Hub

1. The Climate Policy Monitor

A detailed understanding of how rules and policies align to climate goals is essential for creating a level playing field and enabling environment to smooth the path to net zero. But building detailed, comparable, accurate understandings of complex, diverse policy tools across multiple jurisdictions and domains is challenging but critical.

The Monitor provides an open-access mapping and expert assessment of net zero regulations in key domains across key economies, including all G20 countries. The Monitor is distinctive in four ways:

• An in-depth framework for assessment. The Monitor collects up to 265 individual datapoints for each instrument. It organizes this information into a framework that examines a regulatory domain’s ambition, comprehensiveness, and stringency.
• Powered by technical and contextual expertise. The practical effect and meaning of a given regulation are highly dependent on domestic conditions. Therefore, technical on-the-ground legal experience is critical for understanding and analysing policy and law. To meet this challenge, the Monitor is powered by the Legal Expert Network, a global pro-bono network of top-tier law firms providing local expertise in each jurisdiction we cover.
• Assesses both regulatory domains and the individual instruments within them. Understanding the actual effect of regulations often requires an assessment of a combination of various instruments, both those that target climate change specifically and those that do not.
• Comparable information. The rich, granular nature of the Monitor’s data, collected within a single cohesive format, allows users to make substantive comparisons between jurisdictions.
  
  1.1. The Legal Expert Network 

The Legal Expert Network is a global pro-bono network of more than 60 leading law firms that partners with the Hub across its work. Beyond providing the local legal expertise that underpins the Monitor, it is an active professional community — collaborating through topic-driven working groups, webinars and the Hub's annual Symposium (held in partnership with Legal Charter 1.5) — helping firms build climate expertise and connect with peers across jurisdictions. 

2. Research on key dilemmas 

The Hub conducts independent, peer-reviewed research on the unresolved dilemmas holding back effective net zero regulation — from integrity in carbon markets, to the design of rigorous disclosure and transition-planning rules, to how international standards translate into domestic law. This research draws on the Monitor's data but extends beyond it, engaging debates across law, political economy and public policy, and is published in leading journals and policy outlets. 

3. Collaboration with governments 

The Hub works directly with governments and regulators to turn evidence into implementable policy. Recent examples include acting as Secretariat for the Belém Declaration on Sustainable Public Procurement, supporting the Government of Brazil to operationalise its new procurement law, serving as the main data provider to the UN Secretary-General's Taskforce on Net Zero Policy, and preparing a policy roadmap for a net-zero-aligned carbon market for Ukraine. Through this work the Hub helps move policy from commitment to delivery. 

4. Training and capacity-building 

The Hub partners with governments, leading NGOs and international organisations such as the ADB to deliver country-level regulatory and policy-innovation insight, bridging the Monitor's comparative data with the team's research expertise. It also builds capacity across the professions that shape climate regulation — lawyers, policymakers and practitioners — through the global Legal Expert Network, executive education with the Sustainable Law Programme, and convenings such as the Hub's annual Symposium and topic-driven working groups. 

• Thomas Hale, Co-Director, Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy) 
• Thom Wetzer, Co-Director, Associate Professor of Law and Finance and Director of the University of Oxford’s Sustainable Law Programme, co-lead for the Monitor 
• Albert Cucurull Bachiller, Programme Officer, Climate Policy Hub 
• Helena Wright, Executive Director of the Climate Policy Monitor  
• Bhavya Gupta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Net Zero Governance Systems), Climate Policy Hub 
• Emma Lecavalier, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Climate Policy Hub 

Climate Policy Hub, 120 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6GG, United Kingdom 

netzerohub@bsg.ox.ac.uk 

We are grateful for the support of the Oxford Martin School, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation and the EU Horizon ACHIEVE Project.