Climate actions and policies measurement framework

Database documentation

The OECD Climate Actions and Policies Measurement Framework (CAPMF) is the most extensive internationally harmonised climate mitigation policy database to date. Developed under the International Programme for Action on Climate, the CAPMF tracks 130 policy variables, aggregated into 56 key climate actions and policies for the 1990-2023 period for OECD and OECD partner countries as well as the European Union as a block. The current edition of the database covers 50 countries.

For each policy, the CAPMF measures policy stringency, defined as the degree to which policies incentivise emissions reductions. The dataset provides the stringency values for all 130 policy variables as well as the average stringency values of the 56 aggregated climate policies for all countries and the entire time-period. It also calculates the average stringency and the number of adopted policies for sectors or policy areas (e.g. electricity, GHG emissions targets) and building block (e.g. sectoral policies, cross-sectoral policies, international policies), following the structure of the CAPMF as laid out in the related working paper. The structure of the CAPMF can be downloaded here.

In some cases the CAPMF also uses a different policy classification according to market-based instruments, non market-based instruments, and climate targets, governance and climate data (see here for a correspondence table).

To find out more about the International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC), please visit the IPAC webpage.