Emma Lecavalier, Bhavya Gupta, Thomas Hale, Thom Wetzer, Shirley Lukin, Katharina Neumann, Nora Zurcher. 2025 Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review. Oxford Climate Policy Hub, University of Oxford. November 2025.
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Alongside ever-growing heat waves, fires, storms, and other impacts of global warming, 2025 has seen unprecedented political attacks on climate policy. Many observers are therefore asking how
climate policy is changing today: is it getting stronger, or unraveling, and are we getting closer to implementing the goals the world set in the Paris Agreement to stabilise the climate? Tracking
climate rules across 37 jurisdictions—which cover over 85% of global emissions and 87% of global GDP—the 2025 Oxford Climate Policy Monitor provides a rigorous assessment of policies across
six domains: carbon crediting rules, climate-related disclosure, green prudential rules, methane, public procurement, and transition planning. Powered by a global network of more than 60 leading
law firms that gather hundreds of data points on each policy, the Monitor assesses:
- Ambition: How closely the rules align to the goal of the Paris Agreement Stringency:
- How mandatory and enforced the rules are Implementation:
- How operationalised the rules are Comprehensiveness:
- How many parts of the economy the rules cover
