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The publication of Germany's latest emissions projections show the German government is slowing down the energy transition and moving further from its climate targets. As a result, Germany will remain dependent on expensive, unreliable imports of oil and fossil gas for longer.The projections in the climate report presented by the read more...

On 5 March 2026, the EU Council formally adopted the amended European climate law, introducing a binding, interim, 2040 climate target of a 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels. If the EU is to have any chance of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions (‘climate neutrality’) read more...

China released its 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) during the Two Sessions. The plan reinforces the rapid expansion of clean energy, but it does not translate this momentum into stronger binding emissions targets.A central climate target in the plan is a 17% reduction in CO₂ emissions per unit of GDP by read more...

Topline results:Tripling renewables, doubling energy efficiency and cutting methane by 2030 and beyond would cut warming rate by a third in ten years, and halve it by 2040.Implementing the tripling and doubling goals of the COP28 Global Stocktake (GST) would be the first critical step in the GST agreement to read more...

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change, with little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year, said the Climate Action Tracker in its global update, released at the climate talks in Belém, read more...

China’s new 2035 climate target, announced at the UN, marks a shift from emission and energy intensity targets to, for the first time, setting absolute emission reduction targets, but the target it is unlikely to drive down emissions, the Climate Action Tracker said today."Given China is both the world's largest read more...

The Climate Action Tracker has reviewed US climate action under the Trump Administration, and has downgraded the country's rating from "Insufficient" to "Critically insufficient," in the most significant rollback of policies the project has ever analysed.The Trump Administration is pursuing an agenda to systematically repeal federal climate targets, policies, and read more...

The EU Environment Council of 18 September has failed to adopt a 2035 target for the European Union ahead of next week’s high-level event in New York where countries are tabling their targets.Instead, it has published a non-binding statement of intent for an indicative target range of 66.25%-72.5% emissions reduction read more...

The lack of government action to improve their 2030 climate targets and submit ambitious 2035 targets is putting the 1.5˚C target at high risk of multi-decadal overshoot that would have drastic consequences for people and ecosystems globally, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) said today.In an update on climate progress, released read more...

Only six of the countries the Climate Action Tracker analyses (1) have submitted their new 2035 climate targets in time for the Paris Agreement's 10 February 2025 deadline, and only one — the UK — is proposing actions at home that are 1.5°C-aligned.The February 10 deadline is important for transparency, read more...