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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...

The global carbon budget to keep warming below 1.5°C is rapidly diminishing. Despite this fact, and the need for all sectors to decarbonise, buildings sector emissions have remained stubbornly consistent -- they make up roughly a fifth of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In our latest report, we examine read more...

The world is at a crucial juncture in the race to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of limiting warming to 1.5˚C, and it's critical to understand whether governments' implemented and planned collective actions are sufficient to achieve this goal. At the Climate Action Tracker we regularly analyse data to read more...

Decarbonising Colombia’s transport sector, a major contributor to the country’s emissions, will be critical towards achieving its net zero target. While Colombia has been making progress on promoting electric mobility, it could do more to establish 1.5°C compatible targets and to support EV uptake, particularly through expanding its charging network.Under read more...

The dust is settling on COP26 with analyses flying in on the good, the bad, and the “best we could hope for”. But COP26 is not the end of the story and to bring 1.5°C back from the edge we need to see momentum on real emissions reductions pick up read more...

by Louise Jeffery, NewClimate Institute We have a paper published in Science today, with contributions from a number of CAT authors, that confirms that the latest, updated climate targets - or NDC's, if implemented, would result in a stronger near-term foundation for reaching the global warming goals of 2˚C and read more...