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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...

The Climate Action Tracker held a virtual side event at Climate Week NYC 2022 on Wednesday, September 21 entitled: “What is good target design and how do countries compare?” What is a good target design and how do countries compare?The Climate Action Tracker tracks government climate action in around 40 read more...

By Bill Hare and Niklas HöhneThis week is an historic week in the history of action on climate change, with the passing of the US Inflation Reduction Act that commits nearly $370 billion to climate action: the biggest piece of climate legislation in US history.Other countries have gone further and read more...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a provocation for global change. Intensifying efforts to reduce the demand for fossil gas is the right response to deal simultaneously with both the climate and Russia/Ukraine crises. We are now within the critical decade for climate action - by the end of this decade, read more...

A paper published in Nature today about what level of warming we’re headed for gives a robust and comprehensive analysis of governments’ stated intentions, but there is a huge difference between government rhetoric and reality.The paper (by Meinshausen et al.) confirms what we already know: if governments fully implement their read more...

While governments made some progress in Glasgow on closing the 2030 emissions gap, there is still a long way to go to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. All governments need to take heed of the request to ‘revisit and strengthen’ their targets in 2022. While strong targets read more...