Climate policy dashboard

The IFCMA Climate Policy Database provides comprehensive information on a wide range of climate change mitigation and mitigation-relevant policy instruments, classified into policy categories, policy groups and policy approaches. The current edition covers three categories (Economic Instruments, Information Instruments and Regulatory Instruments), which are further broken down into seven groups (Subsidy, Tax, Trading Scheme, Comparative energy efficiency label, Framework Regulation, Performance Standard and Technology Standard). These groups are further broken down into 43 approaches. As data collection expands to new instruments, additional categories and groups will be added.

Hover over each instrument category or group to view the number of approaches included and click on them to display the details of approaches in the database. 

Approaches can be classified according to the targeted emission sectors: Energy industries, Transport, Buildings, Manufacturing industries and construction, and Waste, following the sectoral classification established by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Some approaches target specific sectors, and some target many sectors at a time. In its current scope, the database mainly covers approaches specific to the Buildings and Transport sectors, as well as the Energy Industries. 

Hover on each bar to see the number of approaches that cover each sector.

Instrument groups may be more or less targeted to specific sectors. In the current scope of the database, instruments in the economic instruments category and the technology standards group target more sectors than other regulatory instruments and information instruments.

Different policy approaches target different sectors. In the current scope of the database, taxes are the most widespread group overall, representing more than a third of all adopted approaches across sectors. An exception is the Buildings sector, where Performance standards are more common.  

Hover over each bar to see the average number of approaches in each group and sector. Click on the next slide to display these values expressed as shares.

Countries adopt policy approaches to address different declared mitigation policy objectives. In the current scope of the database, the most common objective is increasing energy efficiency, followed by fuel change.