Aimed to develop a methodology to assess the monitoring and calculations of GHG emission reductions are real and based on sound processes.

Read more at the CAT Website See CAT assessment of submitted INDCs The Climate Action Tracker has developed a new method to assess “comparable efforts” and the “fair share” of governments’ national greenhouse gas reduction proposals. Such a comparison is essential for the successful completion of an agreement on climate change in Paris in December this year, as some governments have made their offers conditional on comparable action by others. For the first time, the method we have developed provides a comprehensive overview of many different viewpoints on what could be considered a “fair”...

The European Commission has made a proposal that specifies its “intended nationally determined contribution” (INDC) to the new international agreement on climate change. The proposal is to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% below 1990 in 2030. However, it now also includes forestry accounting, which could effectively weaken the reductions necessary by all others sectors by a few percentage points. The original proposal of domestic reductions of 40% is already less ambitious than the range of what studies find to be the EU’s fair contribution to the global effort to limit...

Track the progress of the preparation of INDCs of countries worldwide and provide experiences and lessons learned.

The latest update to the Climate Action Tracker has been released, showing that the current level of global climate change mitigation ambition reduces the projected warming trajectory to +2.9° C - 3.1° C. It is the first time since 2009 that the Climate Action Tracker has calculated a discernibly lower temperature increase than previously estimated, due to proposed post-2020 actions. The latest update shows the effect of recently announced pledges to be a warming increase of 2.9° C - 3.1° C, whilst projections from current policies remain significantly above this. The chart shows that the...

Within the Climate Action Tracker project, NewClimate Institute, Climate Analytics, PIK and Ecofys prepared an initial assessment of the recent announcements by the United States and China’s new pledges and proposals on emissions reductions for 2025 and 2030, in the context of the present international negotiations for a new climate agreement to be adopted at the end of 2015. The announcement of increased ambition by the biggest emitters China and the United States one year ahead of the Paris Climate Summit in 2015 is a very important political development. It begins to close the gap between...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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