Sybrig Smit specialises in tracking climate action and policies. She focuses on non-state and subnational climate action, including potential GHG impact assessments of climate targets set by cities, regions, companies and international initiatives. Sybrig holds a BSc in Future Planet Studies at the University of Amsterdam, with a specialisation in Human Geography, and a MSc in Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, with a specialisation in Energy and Materials. In her Master’s thesis, which she wrote in collaboration with NewClimate Institute, she developed a refined methodology to quantify the net GHG emissions reduction impact of global non-state and subnational action.  

Navigating regenerative agriculture in corporate climate strategies
Publication date 26 Sep 2024

From key emission reduction measure to greenwashing strategy The food and agriculture sector is responsible for approximately a third...

Net Zero Stocktake 2024
Publication date 23 Sep 2024

Regional governments key to next round of national carbon-cutting plans As the climate crisis accelerates, the Net Zero Tracker...

Supporting the Paris Agreement through international cooperation: Potential contributions, institutional robustness and progress of Glasgow climate initiatives
Publication date 29 Apr 2024

Many sector-level cooperative initiatives involving both national governments and non-state actors were launched around the 2021...

Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2024
Publication date 09 Apr 2024

The 2024 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) analyses the climate strategies of 51 major global companies, critically...

Climate targets by major steel companies: An assessment of collective ambition and planned emission reduction measures
Publication date 19 Jan 2024

This article, published in Energy and Climate Change journal, systematically assesses the status, robustness, and potential impact of...

Achieving High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action (ACHIEVE)

This Horizon Europe research grant project will identify opportunities to strengthen and scale up voluntary climate action, with the...

Tracking the progress of subnational and non-state climate action

Page navigation About the project The consortium Relevant publications About the project CAMDA is a community of data and analytical...

Net Zero Tracker

The Net Zero Tracker is the world’s only open-source independent review of the quantity and quality of net zero targets across...

The Netherlands’ fair contribution to climate change mitigation

In this project, NewClimate analysed the Netherland’ government’s proposed target pathway of reducing GHG emissions to 55% below 1990...

Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor

NewClimate Institute is partnering with Carbon Market Watch to address critical gaps in the evolving landscape of corporate climate...

CAAT - Climate Action Aggregation Tool

The ICAT Climate Action Aggregation Tool (CAAT) guides users in a step-by-step process to define a research scope, compile non-state...

Bonn sessions: The role of the private sector in bolstering ambitious & credible NDCs on the road to COP30
Venue Room Berlin, World Conference Center Bonn
Date 05 Jun 2024
Start time 04:15 pm

On June 5th, the Net Zero Tracker is co-hosting an event alongside CDP, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)...

Workshop for journalists: How to report on corporate net zero targets: telling greenwashing apart from real ambition
Venue International Journalism Festival / online
Date 20 Apr 2024
Start time 11:00 am

More and more companies are racing to outdo each other with green promises to achieve net zero emissions. But what is behind these...

Virtual Launch: CCRM 2024​ - Are corporate 2030 climate plans fit for purpose?
Venue Online
Date 09 Apr 2024
Start time 03:00 pm

The 2024 edition of the annual Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) analyses the climate strategies of several major...

COP27: Climate action by businesses, cities, and cooperative initiatives: faster, and stronger towards more ambitious NDCs
Venue COP27, EU pavilion (online)
Date 17 Nov 2022
Start time 05:30 pm

Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, a myriad of actors incl. businesses, cities, and cooperative initiatives have committed to a...

Online event: A fair emissions budget for the Netherlands
Venue Online
Date 29 Aug 2022

Hanna Fekete and Niklas Höhne (NewClimate) presented new research on the Netherlands’ government’s proposed target pathway and why it...

Press Release – Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2024
Publication date 09 Apr 2024

Slow improvement in companies’ climate targets threatened by potential new offsetting loophole Berlin, 09 April 2024 – Despite...

Major Dutch companies’ climate pledges fall short of what is needed for Paris Agreement
Publication date 05 Jul 2022

Berlin, 5 July 2022 – New analysis published today shows that major Dutch companies only commit to reduce their emissions by 19% by...

Q&A with the authors: Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022
Publication date 07 Feb 2022

Companies around the world are increasingly alert to the climate emergency, facing calls from a growing range of stakeholders to take...

Press Release – Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022
Publication date 07 Feb 2022

Go to the report / Read the Q&A with the authors Download the methodology / Watch press conference Major companies largely fail net...

Enhancing national climate ambition through city and business climate change targets: a whole-of-society approach
Publication date 10 Feb 2021

A new tool to evaluate integrated climate action of non-state and subnational actors The world now faces a critical juncture as...

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