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As the dust settles on the UK elections, our UK lead Dr Neil Grant looks at the climate challenges ahead for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. The biggest challenge - and indeed opportunity - for the new UK government, is to take the lead read more...

by Frederic Hans, Sarah Heck, and Silke Mooldijk Here, we present our recent findings on our Climate Action Tracker evaluation of net zero targets’ scope, architecture, and transparency. We have adapted extracts from Chapter 3.8 of our December 2023 Global Update.In our latest analysis of net zero targets, we find read more...

Since the 2019 EU elections, the EU has significantly improved its climate performance through its implementation of the Green Deal. The EU’s emissions are now on a path consistent with scenarios that limit global temperature increase to a little above 2°C, a more than 1˚C improvement on the emissions pathway read more...

Authors: Thomas Houlie, Maria José de Villafranca, Bill HareWe've just completed our analysis of Australia's climate action and, unfortunately, it seems the Australian government has failed to deliver on its promise to “take the country forward on climate action” as it had promised.Australia's massive reliance on sinks in the land read more...

Authors: Sophie Boehm, Clea Schumer, Emma Grier, Louise Jeffery (CAT), Judit Hecke (CAT), Joel Jaeger, Claire Fyson (CAT), Kelly Levin, Anna Nilsson (CAT), Stephen Naimoli, Emily Daly (CAT), Joe Thwaites, Katie Lebling, Richard Waite, Jason Collis (CAT), Michelle Sims, Neelam Singh, William Lamb, Sebastian Castellanos, Anderson Lee, Marie-Charlotte Geffray (CAT), read more...

When? November 15, 4 - 5:30 pm (CET) / 10 - 11:30 am (EST)Where? Online Climate change is already wreaking havoc across the planet, devastating communities and ecosystems around the world. Humanity can no longer afford to delay addressing the climate crisis. With the first Global Stocktake drawing to a read more...

The Climate Action Tracker held a virtual event on 1.5°C aligned benchmarks for decarbonising the power sector on Tuesday, September 19 entitled: “Pulling the plug on fossil fuels in power” At the event, we launched our report on 1.5°C aligned benchmarks for decarbonising the power sector and briefing on whether read more...

by Anna Nilsson (Climate Action Tracker) and Neelam Singh (World Resources Institute) under the Systems Change Lab project If the world is going to shift away from the most damaging impacts of the climate crisis, it needs to decarbonize the industry sector. Industry is made up of the processes we read more...

The Climate Action Tracker held a virtual event on Monday, December 12 entitled: “What’s next for the African continent? Charting a path to ambitious climate action in 2023” Governments scrambled in 2022 to shore up energy security in the wake of the energy crisis caused by Russia’s illegal invasion of read more...

Authors: Sophie Boehm, Clea Schumer, Kelly Levin, Louise Jeffery (CAT), Claire Fyson (CAT), Joe Thwaites, Stephen Naimoli, Aman Majid (CAT), Katie Lebling, Anna Nilsson (CAT), Judit Hecke (CAT), Michelle Sims, Joel Jaeger, Ryan Wilson (CAT), Rich Waite, Emily Cassidy, Andreas Geiges (CAT), Anderson Lee, Neelam Singh, and Sebastian Castellanos.Table of read more...