Mitigating climate change and aligning with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature target demands immediate, transformative action at national, subnational and sectoral levels. Monitoring and assessing mitigation action is central to gauging and augmenting the pace, depth, and efficacy of action.
All climate change mitigation efforts should be aligned with the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C while securing and safeguarding sustainable development for all. Mainstreaming climate policy and sustainable development goals into national policy frameworks is an immense challenge in which countries can benefit from the exchange of good practices and lessons learned from different parts of the globe.
We support ambitious national and sectoral mitigation targets and action by:
- Providing evidence to guide the development and revision of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), long-term strategies (LTS) and climate action plans at national and sectoral levels
- Formulating ambitious sectoral transformation strategies and associated policy measures
- Tracking and quantifying targets and policies to assess climate action progress
- Developing methods to rate governments and other actors’ climate action
- Estimating the impact of climate action on national and global emissions
- Building institutional structures and capacities for climate policy implementation
- Producing methods for evaluating net-zero or climate neutrality claims
- Developing benchmarks for 1.5°C compatibility at the national and sectoral level
