Open data
The Climpact data, open and citable
Climpact studies how climate litigation produces change beyond the courtroom. The evidence behind that work is published here as versioned releases — each one with the data files, a variable-by-variable codebook, an explicit licence and a citation, so anyone can check it, reuse it and credit it.
Releases
Releases
Live data
The Impact Tracker publishes as it goes
Alongside the versioned releases above, Climpact LIT publishes the traces climate cases leave behind, one by one, as they are reported and reviewed. It is open data under the same licence, but it is a stream, not a snapshot: it changes whenever a new trace is published.
No key and no registration: /api/lit/v1/traces answers JSON, add ?format=csv for the spreadsheet, and any of the five charts can be embedded in your own page. When the corpus is stable enough, a dated and citable snapshot of it will be issued as a release, like the ones above.
Using the data
Licence, citation and what you get
Licence
Releases are published under CC BY 4.0 unless a release states otherwise. You may share and adapt the data, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit.Citation
Every release page carries a ready-made citation and a BibTeX entry. Cite the specific version you used — versions are permanent, so your analysis stays reproducible even after the data grows.
Codebook
Each release documents every variable: its name, meaning, type and permitted values. Nothing in the files should require guesswork or a conversation with the team.