Highlights key investment areas for Uganda based INDC which sets out priority actions in adaptation and mitigation.

Report on the impacts and implications of the INDC preparation process for national climate policy and the international climate negotiation process.

Activities by cities, regions, business and sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are numerous and help to fulfil national emission reductions targets. Download full report Cologne, 25 November 2015: Commitments by non-state actors (cities, regions, business and sectors) further reduce German greenhouse gas emissions beyond what is implied by current policies. This is found by new research undertaken by NewClimate Institute supported by Stiftung Mercator. For the first time, this study quantifies whether and to which extent these activities go beyond what governments have already agreed...

The executive board of Wageningen University has appointed NewClimate Institute’s founding partner Niklas Höhne as special Professor ‘Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases’. This part time appointment for one day a week starts on 15 November and will last for five years. Prof. Dr. Niklas Höhne will be part of the chair group Environmental Systems Analyses of Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans. The chair is funded by the NewClimate Institute, where he will continue to work. With the appointment Höhne extends his academic career, which builds on an extensive track record of academic publications, including a paper...

Niklas Höhne of NewClimate Institute presented at the 19th Annual Chatham House Climate Change Conference on "Climate Change 2015: Building Agreement Towards 2°C, Paris and Beyond". Chatham House Conference

Niklas Höhne of NewClimate Institute presented at a lunch event hosted by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the margins of the UNFCCC ADP negotiations on the development of 2°C compatible investment criteria.

The updated results of NewClimate Institute’s research to track the preparation of INDCs are now published. View the results All countries have been asked to present an emissions reduction proposal, which would ultimately be included in a new international climate agreement in December 2015. 119 submissions, representing 147 Parties, were received by 02 October 2015, representing over 85% of total global GHG emissions. Details of these submissions will be documented in the UNFCCC’s synthesis report, which will be made available to Parties in time for the 21 st Conference of Parties in Paris...

Press release from the Climate Action Tracker The combination of Government climate action plans, if implemented, would bring global warming down to 2.7°C, according to an analysis released today by the Climate Action Tracker (CAT). Read the full analysis from the Climate Action Tracker On the day of the October 1 UN deadline for governments to submit their emission reduction targets, or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for 2025 and 2030, the CAT’s estimate of their impact on warming shows that, if fully implemented, they would bring warming down to 2.7°C – an improvement...

Carsten Warnecke of NewClimate Institute presented on the trends of results based finance (RBF) at the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Workshop on Carbon Finance.

Comprehensively evaluated Agora Energiewende, an initiative to support the German energy transition.

Supported the development of the second National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP) of Lebanon.

The updated results of NewClimate Institute’s research to track the preparation of INDCs are now published. View the results All countries have been asked to present an emissions reduction proposal, which would ultimately be included in a new international climate agreement in December 2015. 29 submissions (including the EU with 28 member states) were received by September 2015, representing over 60% of total global GHG emissions. An implicit submission deadline is 01 October 2015, after which submissions are still allowed but will not be included in the UNFCCC’s synthesis report, which will...

Government climate action would see warming well beyond 2˚C The climate targets so far submitted to the UN by governments collectively lead to global emissions far above the levels needed to hold warming to below 2°C, the Climate Action Tracker said today. The analysis by the consortium of four research organisations was released today in Bonn where Governments are meeting for the second to last week of negotiations ahead of Paris. Around 65% of global emissions are covered by the “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions” (INDCs) submitted by 29 Governments as of 1 September 2015. The CAT...

Niklas Höhne of NewClimate Institute presented in a webinar hosted by UNDP on experiences and lessons learned from INDC preparation worldwide.

Corporate climate action is increasingly considered important in driving the transition towards a low-carbon economy. For this, it is critical to ensure translation of global goals to greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets at company level. At the moment, however, there is a lack of clear methods to derive consistent corporate target setting that keeps cumulative corporate GHG emissions within a specific carbon budget (for example, 550–1,300 GtCO2 between 2011 and 2050 for the 2°C target) . Here the authors propose a method for corporate emissions target setting that derives carbon...