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Methane, coal transition, transport and forest pledges at COP26 still leave substantial emissions gap - Climate Action Tracker

John Englart

New analysis by Climate Action Tracker shows that for the countries that have signed the pledges, they have closed the 2030 emissions gap between a 1.5°C I'd like to say the various pledges made these last two weeks have eliminated the emissions gap, but they haven't. C path and government targets by around 9% - or 2.2.

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Guest Post: Prof Bill Hare on Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

John Englart

When we published our analysis in December on Climate Action Tracker, a global assessment of government climate action, we warned Australia was unlikely to achieve its net

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How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada

Corporate Knights

Climate Action Tracker, a research group that follows the progress made by the countries that generate about 85% of global emissions, considers the climate policies Canada has drafted thus far to be “highly insufficient.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from Climate Action Tracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.

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New Roadmap for “Drastic” Response to Global Stocktake

Chris Hall

Instead, we need immediate, transformational changes across every single sector this decade.” Published by Systems Change Lab, the report is a joint effort between the Bezos Earth Fund, Climate Action Tracker (a project of Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute), ClimateWorks Foundation, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and World Resources (..)

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

The frontrunning proposal, sponsored by France, Germany and Japan, has come under fire due to a recommendation that stringent enforcement of operational efficiency regulations is introduced no earlier than 2029.

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Our Sustainable Development Report Card Has Arrived. Did We Pass? 

Sustainable Development Network

Regarding climate change, the US is marked “critically insufficient” for 1.5°C C Paris-agreement compatible climate action according to the November 2020, Climate Action Tracker.