A Python API for NewClimate Institute's ClimatePolicy DataBase (CPDB). You can also view the database via the website at https://climatepolicydatabase.org/.

Installation

Installation is simple, via pip.

pip install cpdb-api

If you need to specify a version, please do this (we strongly recommend against this unless you know what you're doing):

pip install cpdb-api==<version e.g. 1.0.5>

Usage

from cpdb_api import request 

r = request.Request()

# set filters
r.set_country("IND")
r.set_decision_date(2010)
r.set_policy_status("In force")
r.add_sector("Electricity and heat")
r.add_sector("Coal")
r.add_policy_instrument("Energy and other taxes")
r.add_mitigation_area("Renewables")

# Issue the request (this returns a pandas dataframe, if you want to parse it programmatically)
r.issue()

# save the result to CSV file
r.save_csv("filtered_cpdb.csv")

Releasing

To release to PyPi (pip), do the following:

1. Increment the version number in pyproject.toml
2. Run the following commands:

$ python3 -m build
$ python3 -m twine upload dist/*