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Climate Change Policy Analysts
Research and analyze policy developments related to climate change. Make climate-related recommendations for actions such as legislation, awareness campaigns, or fundraising approaches.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide analytical support for policy briefs related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, or climate change.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Propose new or modified policies involving use of traditional and alternative fuels, transportation of goods, and other factors relating to climate and climate change.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Prepare study reports, memoranda, briefs, testimonies, or other written materials to inform government or environmental groups on environmental issues, such as climate change.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Analyze and distill climate-related research findings to inform legislators, regulatory agencies, or other stakeholders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Make legislative recommendations related to climate change or environmental management, based on climate change policies, principles, programs, practices, and processes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Present climate-related information at public interest, governmental, or other meetings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Gather and review climate-related studies from government agencies, research laboratories, and other organizations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Review existing policies or legislation to identify environmental impacts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Promote initiatives to mitigate climate change with government or environmental groups.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Research policies, practices, or procedures for climate or environmental management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
54%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 59% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.