In a consortium with Climate Analytics and Ecofys, NewClimate Institute contributed to the Climate Action Tracker’s Scaling Up Climate Action country series. The first round of analysis covered South Africa, the European Union, Argentina, Indonesia, Turkey, and Australia.

The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) aimed to support enhancing climate action in the context of the Paris Agreement implementation. This analysis contributed to the Talanoa Dialogue at COP24 and to future revisions of mitigation targets, and sought to spur an increase in climate mitigation actions to close the gap between current emissions projections and Paris-compatible pathways. As part of this, we researched the potential for countries to scale up climate action in different focus areas. The analysis in these reports was relevant to Parties considering revisions to their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due under the Paris Agreement by 2020, and to their submission of long-term low greenhouse gas development plans, also due by 2020.

The result was the Scaling Up Climate Action country series, which identified options for increased sectoral action that could move countries towards a pathway compatible with the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature limit and estimated the impact of those actions on emissions and other benefits.