
Climate Action Tracker
As of: January 2021
The current NDCs of individual countries vary greatly in form and content. The Climate Action Tracker therefore conducts independent, transparent studies on the national and global implementation of the Paris Agreement in over 30 countries. The project evaluates the reduction proposals and their implementation, assessing them in terms of their compatibility with the Paris Agreement. It also standardises the individual NDCs, enabling them to be compared with one other. The Climate Action Tracker also investigates the global effect of all NDCs and calculates a possible temperature increase resulting from all the activities, including the effects of international accounting rules – and this in turn enables the analysis of the differences between the actual greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions that are permitted for limiting the temperature rise to 1.5°C or 2°C. Through its work, the project identifies the best possible policy measures worldwide, both for countries and for individual sectors.
State of implementation/results
- Update of country profiles in July and September 2020, including the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on future greenhouse gas emissions climateactiontracker.org/…
- Assessment on latest climate goals of for example Chile, New Zealand and Viet Nam in the Climate Target Update Tracker climateactiontracker.org/…
- 23 September 2020. Global update: Pandemic recovery with just a hint of green climateactiontracker.org/…
- 23 September 2020. China going carbon neutral before 2060 would lower warming projections by around 0.2 to 0.3°C climateactiontracker.org/…
- 11 August 2020. Paris Agreement Compatible Sectoral Benchmarks climateactiontracker.org/…
- 30 Juli 2020. COVID-19 pandemic adds uncertainty on future emissions – jury still out on whether they'll rise or fall climateactiontracker.org/…
- 7 Juli 2020. Japan’s coal power policy reflects the country’s highly insufficient level of ambition to avoid the climate crisis climateactiontracker.org/…
- 26 Juni 2020. International shipping and aviation emissions goals both “Critically insufficient” climateactiontracker.org/…
- 27 April 2020. A government roadmap for addressing the climate and post COVID-19 economic crises climateactiontracker.org/…
Project data
- Country:
- worldwide
- Implementing organisation:
- NewClimate - Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability gGmbH
- Implementing partner(s):
- Climate Analytics gGmbH
- BMU grant:
- 5.098.435,00 €
- Duration:
- 10/2016 till 09/2022
- Website(s):