The discipline that makes a signal worth acting on.
A signal carries weight only because of the standards behind it. These principles govern how Climate Probity moves from a record to a reviewed conclusion. They are design commitments for the production system.
What the platform produces, named precisely.
Climate Probity works at these three states and matches the language of any output to the state the evidence actually reaches.
Where authority rests with others.
Allegation
A claim of wrongdoing that has not necessarily been established. It belongs to those with standing to make it.
Formal determination
A conclusion reached by an authorized investigative, judicial, administrative, or oversight body.
Built into the workflow, not added afterward.
The governance and method policies the production system will publish.
These policies set out how the platform is operated and governed. They describe controls and accountability, without disclosing proprietary analytical methods.
Open about principles, careful about methods.
We describe how a signal is reviewed, traced, and governed, because that is what makes it credible. We do not describe how it is produced, because that is what makes the platform defensible and would assist replication.
- Source traceability and evidential states
- Human review and proportionality
- Right of reply, correction, independence
- Current development status
- Detection logic, scoring, or thresholds
- Entity-resolution and confidence methods
- Source-processing and ingestion design
- Proprietary taxonomies and corpus detail