Net Zero Stocktake 2024

The Net Zero Tracker’s 2024 assessment of the intent and integrity of global climate commitments shows only a modest increase in net zero targets set by subnational governments (states and regions, and cities) in the past year. Some of this year’s key findings...

A Distinctly Private Pursuit: Not going net zero

Weighted by annual revenue, net zero targets now cover nearly 80% of the world’s largest 2,000 publicly listed companies, up from less than 20% in 2020. The integrity and clarity of these targets are weak, but voluntary target-setting at the publicly listed level...

Net Zero Stocktake 2023

In November 2022, the UN Secretary-General’s Expert Group set out what ‘good’ net zero looks like; in June 2023, the UNFCCC established the Global Climate Action Recognition and Accountability Framework for non-state entities. Nations, regions and corporates...

UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window

As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that...