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Climate change is an ongoing topic in nearly all areas of society since manyyears. A discussion of climate change without referring to scientific resultsis not imaginable. This is especially the case for policies since action on themacro scale is required to avoid costly consequences for society. In thisstudy, we deal with the question of how research on climate change and policyare connected. In 2019, the new Overton database of policy documents wasreleased including links to research papers that are cited by policy documents.The use of results and recommendations from research on climate change might bereflected in citations of scientific papers in policy documents. Although wesuspect a lot of uncertainty related to the coverage of policy documents inOverton, there seems to be an impact of international climate policy cycles onpolicy document publication. We observe local peaks in climate policy documentsaround major decisions in international climate diplomacy. Our results pointout that IGOs and think tanks -- with a focus on climate change -- havepublished more climate change policy documents than expected. We found thatclimate change papers that are cited in climate change policy documentsreceived significantly more citations on average than climate change papersthat are not cited in these documents. Both areas of society (science andpolicy) focus on similar climate change research fields: biology, earthsciences, engineering, and disease sciences. Based on these and other empiricalresults in this study, we propose a simple model of policy impact considering achain of different document types: the chain starts with scientific assessmentreports (systematic reviews) that lead via science communication documents(policy briefs, policy reports or plain language summaries) and governmentreports to legislative documents.

How relevant is climate change research for climate change policy? An empirical analysis based on Overton data