What does volunteering for the Tracker involve?

Role summary

⏰ Time Commitment

• A few hours per week, flexible based on your availability, at whatever time suits you, fully online and remote

🎁What’s in it for me?

• Contribute to addressing climate change through data tracking

• Gain hands-on data collection experience with a policy tracker

• Build your CV with volunteer experience from a project in collaboration with four organisations; The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), The Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL), NewClimate Institute, and Oxford Net Zero at The University of Oxford

• Be part of an online community of climate change experts across multiple disciplines

• Gain a formal letter of recognition acknowledging your contribution, signed by the project leads

• Plans underway to create NZT merchandise to recognise long-standing commitment

🛠️What will I do?

• Assigned a new entity to update every Tuesday

• Search publicly available sources on the internet to collect information on the net zero policy commitments of countries, regions, cities, and companies

• Input data into the tracker's data collection website to keep the database updated as new information becomes available.

• Review data entries from other volunteers to ensure accuracy

✅ What skills and commitment do I need?

• Interest in any of the following:

  • Climate change policy

  • Net Zero governance

  • Corporate Net Zero plans

  • Specific industries (fossil fuels, renewable, fashion, retail, technology)

  • National Determined Contributions

  • UN Race to Zero

  • Greenwashing

  • International climate standards

  • Net Zero Transition pathways

  • Sustainability reporting

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong Googling, and CTRL+F skills

🗣️🌴👗Tailored to your interests

• We can allocate you updates based on your interests, let us know if you would like to focus on any languages (e.g., perhaps you’re a French speaker) or any types of entities (e.g., African cities, Brazilian states, island countries or fashion companies?)

✋ I’m interested! What do I do?

Please email updates@zerotracker.net to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team.