climate targets

The emissions reductions targets so far set by the oil and gas sector are well off track to keep global... Read more

Jasmine Tillu explains how China’s new ‘Leading Small Group’ can accelerate China’s environmental and economic goals by focusing on cities and working to peak carbon emissions by 2025 instead of 2030. Read more

In the coming years the UK will be competing in a race between economies to become cleaner, smarter and more... Read more

To feed into the Talanoa Dialogue, the Grantham Research Institute and the World Resources Institute have been taking stock of the quantified climate targets set by different Parties to the Paris Agreement. Read more

Only 16 countries have set domestic targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are clearly at least as ambitious as... Read more

The quantified climate change targets in countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement and those in national laws and policies are compared in this brief, a submission to the Talanoa Dialogue. Read more

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the use of fossil fuels must peak and then rapidly decline. This research investigates the impact of climate change policy on capital invested in fossil fuel power plants, especially coal - so-called ‘dirty’ assets. Read more

There has been much confusion ahead of the next round of international negotiations on climate change, which start at the... Read more

Abstract It is only a small exaggeration to say that climate change policy is dominated by targets. Internationally, the emission... Read more