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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...

...the CAT launches new Climate Target Update TrackerWhile the UAE’s new 2035 NDC includes an ambitious emissions reduction target that lies within a 1.5˚C pathway, its NDC commitments as a whole cannot be rated 1.5˚C compatible. This is because the UAE has not strengthened its 2030 target, which is far read more...

... Trump policies make only slight increase in warming projections.... sets out 2035 NDC asks for big emitters and troika The combined global effect of government action on climate change has flat-lined over the last three years, underscoring a critical disconnect between the reality of climate change and the lack read more...

After weakening its updated NDC, removing its 2030 target altogether, and with its pledge to markedly increase fossil fuel production and consequentially increase methane emissions, COP29 host Azerbaijan has earned a "Critically Insufficient" rating from the Climate Action Tracker, in an analysis released today. Azerbaijan's emissions are projected to continue read more...

If governments don't strengthen their 2030 targets and fail to substantially increase climate action before 2030, limiting peak global warming to 1.5°C will very likely not be possible and would lead to a multi-decadal, high overshoot of this limit, the Climate Action Tracker said today. The CAT released its "Guide read more...

The European Commission proposed a 2040 emission reductions target, which would only be 1.5˚C aligned if accompanied with significantly higher international climate finance and which, disappointingly, is at the least ambitious end of the 90-95% range recommended to it, the Climate Action Tracker said today.The new 2040 proposal assumes no read more...