Climate Policy Monitor goes live
Introducing the brand new Craft CMS/Laravel web app we designed and built for the Climate Policy Monitor, a body set up to assess how global policies and regulations align with climate goals.
The Climate Policy Monitor is a research initiative based at the University of Oxford. Launched in October 2023 with a strategic funding grant from the Oxford Martin School, the Hub is a collaboration between the Blavatnik School of Government and the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, and part of the Oxford Net Zero strategic cluster.
The project we were commissioned to deliver consisted of two main elements: the design of a suite of branding materials and the design and development of a Craft CMS/Laravel web app.
The project started with the branding work, specifically the typography and colour palette, before moving onto logo design and finally branded templates for software such as PowerPoint and Word.
The web app development side of the project was where the real challenges lay, in that we had to build an integration with Qualtrics to import the data from the surveys completed by each jurisdiction and use that data to create the tables and visualisations on the jurisdiction pages.
To make things more complex the staff needed to edit the survey data within the web app so things like user locks and version control had to be factored in alongside the Qualtrics integration.
The timeline was incredibly tight for a project of this size and complexity and it took a great deal of effort from the entire team but we were delighted to launch the new web app on time and to coincide with the COP29 climate change conference, much to the appreciation of the client.
