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• CSV Records 31 records, one row each. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, R or Stata. records.csv
• JSON Records with legal journeys Every field, the dated legal journey of each record, the field dictionary, licence and citation. records.json
• CSV Legal journeys 144 dated milestones, one row each, with the source of each milestone. journeys.csv
• CSV Pledge and law 3 countries: the latest NDC with its headline target quoted, and where its targets are anchored in law. UNFCCC and primary-law sources only. pledges.csv
• JSON Pledge and law with definitions The same entries with the field dictionary, licence and citation. pledges.json

Field dictionary

record_id

Stable identifier of the record (also the end of its web address).

instrument

Name of the law, system or tax the record describes.

jurisdiction

Country or sub-national jurisdiction that adopted the instrument.

iso3

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country.

country

Name of the country with that code. For a state or province, jurisdiction names the state and country names the country it belongs to.

instrument_type

Emissions trading system, carbon tax, framework law, target law, crediting mechanism, energy-transition law, disclosure / MRV rule.

legal_stage

In force · Enacted, not yet in force · In rulemaking · Proposed / announced · No binding instrument.

stage_date

Date the instrument reached its current stage (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD, as precise as the source allows).

legal_reference

Act, decree or gazette reference.

coverage

Sectors, entities or share of emissions covered, as stated by the source.

summary

Short description of the instrument, as shown on the Radar.

what_to_watch

Decisions, rules or reviews to watch that the source names without a date. Dated ones are in next_steps.

source_name

Publisher of the document the record was checked against.

source_url

Address of that document.

source_type

“official” (law, gazette, government or regulator) or “reference” (a recognised compilation such as ICAP).

btr_status

Indicative status for Biennial Transparency Reports: planned, adopted or implemented (see Standards).

last_verified

Date the record was last checked against its source.

region

Region group used by the Radar’s region filter and Regions view, such as Asia-Pacific.

topics

Topics the record is filed under. In CSV files they are separated by semicolons.

url

Address of the record’s page on this site.

next_steps

Next dated steps as the source gives them: date (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD), status (“scheduled”: a law, decree or official calendar sets the date; “expected”: planned, targeted or reported), event and source. A list in JSON; one cell in CSV, steps separated by semicolons. The same dates, except year-only ones, are in /radar-data/calendar.ics.

legal_journey

Dated milestones (proposed, enacted, rulemaking, in force, later milestone), each with its own source. “reversal” is true (“yes” in journeys.csv) for a step that reduced the instrument’s legal force or coverage. JSON and journeys.csv only.