Machine Learning for Climate Policy: Understanding Policy Progression in the European Green Deal
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| author | West, Patricia Wan, Michelle WL Hepburn, Alexander Simpson, Edwin Santos-Rodriguez, Raul Clark, Jeffrey N |
| author_facet | West, Patricia Wan, Michelle WL Hepburn, Alexander Simpson, Edwin Santos-Rodriguez, Raul Clark, Jeffrey N |
| contents | Climate change demands effective legislative action to mitigate its impacts. This study explores the application of machine learning (ML) to understand the progression of climate policy from announcement to adoption, focusing on policies within the European Green Deal. We present a dataset of 165 policies, incorporating text and metadata. We aim to predict a policy's progression status, and compare text representation methods, including TF-IDF, BERT, and ClimateBERT. Metadata features are included to evaluate the impact on predictive performance. On text features alone, ClimateBERT outperforms other approaches (RMSE = 0.17, R^2 = 0.29), while BERT achieves superior performance with the addition of metadata features (RMSE = 0.16, R^2 = 0.38). Using methods from explainable AI highlights the influence of factors such as policy wording and metadata including political party and country representation. These findings underscore the potential of ML tools in supporting climate policy analysis and decision-making. |
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| spellingShingle | Machine Learning for Climate Policy: Understanding Policy Progression in the European Green Deal West, Patricia Wan, Michelle WL Hepburn, Alexander Simpson, Edwin Santos-Rodriguez, Raul Clark, Jeffrey N Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Climate change demands effective legislative action to mitigate its impacts. This study explores the application of machine learning (ML) to understand the progression of climate policy from announcement to adoption, focusing on policies within the European Green Deal. We present a dataset of 165 policies, incorporating text and metadata. We aim to predict a policy's progression status, and compare text representation methods, including TF-IDF, BERT, and ClimateBERT. Metadata features are included to evaluate the impact on predictive performance. On text features alone, ClimateBERT outperforms other approaches (RMSE = 0.17, R^2 = 0.29), while BERT achieves superior performance with the addition of metadata features (RMSE = 0.16, R^2 = 0.38). Using methods from explainable AI highlights the influence of factors such as policy wording and metadata including political party and country representation. These findings underscore the potential of ML tools in supporting climate policy analysis and decision-making. |
| title | Machine Learning for Climate Policy: Understanding Policy Progression in the European Green Deal |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16233 |