China and the US: how does their climate action compare?

If the US and China were to adopt global best practice in their domestic action on climate, together, the world’s largest emitters could close the 2020 emissions gap by 23%, according to new research.In their latest Climate Action Tracker update, research organisations Climate Analytics, Ecofys and the Pik Potsdam Institute read more...

Coal’s rapid phase out essential, not enough to stay below 2°C warming

A rapid phase out of coal as an electricity source by 2050 would reduce warming by half a degree, according to the Climate Action Tracker, in an update released today ahead of the Ban ki-Moon climate summit. The Climate Action Tracker, put together by research organisations Climate Analytics, Ecofys, and read more...

Below 2°C or 1.5°C depends on rapid action from both Annex I and non-Annex I countries

Deeper cuts needed by all sooner, especially in energy and industry, to keep to 2°CAll governments will have to significantly increase their action on climate change – both before 2020 and after, reducing total global greenhouse gas emissions to zero between 2060 and 2080, to keep warming to 2°C.To achieve read more...

In talks for a new climate treaty, a race to the bottom

Weak government action on climate change will lead to a projected 3.7degC of warming by 2100, around 0.6degC higher than the original promises they made in Copenhagen, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) said today.The annual assessment by the CAT, a project of research organisations: Climate Analytics, Ecofys and the Potsdam read more...

Japan’s reverses Copenhagen pledge, widens global emissions gap, nuclear shutdown not to blame

Japan’s new 2020 target of a 3.8% cut in emissions at 2005 levels, announced overnight, will increase its own emissions and widen the global emissions gap by 3-4%, according to the Climate Action Tracker.The new target will mean that by 2020, Japan’s emissions will have increased by 3.1 percent above read more...

Australian climate move would turn climate target into emissions increase

The Australian Government’s plans to dismantle the current climate legislation could lead to it increasing emissions in 2020 rather than meeting its target of reducing them by 5% from 2000 levels, the Climate Action Tracker said today.As Prime Minister Tony Abbott introduced legislation into the Australian Parliament today, the Climate read more...

“Climate shuffle” likely to lead to increased warming

Against a background of stalled climate talks, current analyses of climate policies show that governments are less likely than ever to deliver on the Copenhagen pledges, let alone keep global warming below 2degC, the Climate Action Tracker said today in its latest update, released at the Bonn climate talks.Current emissions read more...

Staying below 2°C: the choices we face

The Climate Action Tracker's illustration of where we are at the end of the Doha UNFCCC negotiations, December 2012.

Two degrees possible, but time is not on our side: Climate Action Tracker

Limiting global warming below 2degC - or even to below 1.5DegC remains technically and economically feasible, but only with political ambition backed by rapid action starting now, the Climate Action Tracker said today.

Governments set world on more than 3°C warming, still playing with numbers

Governments are still set to send global temperatures above 3°C by 2100, even though their agreed warming limit of 2°C is still technically possible, scientists said today.In releasing their latest update at the Bangkok UN climate talks, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a joint project of Climate Analytics, Ecofys and read more...

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