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.