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The use of international carbon credits by governments to meet their climate targets under the Paris Agreement's Article 6 has the potential to undermine progress in climate action, the Climate Action Tracker said today.Launching its Article 6 assessment series, the CAT has undertaken its first qualitative assessments of the carbon read more...

Despite being in the midst of the third major energy shock this decade, governments’ immediate reactions are still largely failing to take action consistent with a global energy transition, despite the recent and exponential rise of renewables and electrification, the Climate Action Tracker said today. In a briefing released at read more...

India is likely to be able to achieve its newly-announced 2035 target - to increase its non-fossil capacity to 60% - by, or even before, 2030 under the policies it already has in place, and will lead to emissions continuing to rise, the Climate Action Tracker said today."India has missed read more...

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...