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UNEP Emissions Gap Reports

Contribute to all annual editions of the UNEP emissions gap report. The CAT and the PBL climate policy modelling projects serve as key data sources.

Assessment of progress in policy implementation and emissions scenario analysis for major emitting economies

Provide analyses on the progress of major emitting countries towards their mitigation targets and on enhanced action scenarios to fill the emissions gap.

Governing NAMAs

Focussed on addressing governance challenges of NAMAs. Explored facilitation of international coordination and national diversity.

Accounting under a 2015 agreement

Provided recommendations on the design of a future transparent, and comparable accounting framework for all Parties.

ACT 2015

Developed potential propositions for what the climate agreement at COP21 could look like which was presented in a series of workshops.

Mitigation responsibilities under a 2015 international climate agreement

Analysed options for mitigation commitments under the climate agreement to determine ambitious emission reduction commitments.

Climate Action Tracker

An up-to-date assessment of individual country emission reduction pledges and policies, and compares to what is necessary to limit warming.

Countries’ contributions to climate change: effect of accounting for all greenhouse gases, recent trends, basic needs and technological progress
Publication date 01 Sep 2013

In the context of recent discussions at the UN climate negotiations we compared several ways of calculating historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and assessed the effect of these different approaches on countries’ relative contributions to cumulative global emissions. Elements not covered before are: (i) including recent historical emissions (2000–2010), (ii) discounting historical emissions to account for technological progress; (iii) deducting emissions for ‘basic needs’; (iv) including projected emissions up to 2020, based on countries’ unconditional reduction proposals for 2020. Our...

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