Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022: Assessing the transparency and integrity of companies emission reduction and net-zero targets

The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of companies' climate pledges. The objectives of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor are:Identify and highlight good practice approaches that can be replicated by other companies, recognising that companies are experimenting to work out what is constructive and credible practice.Reveal the extent to which major companies' climate leadership claims have integrity, and provide a structured methodology for others to replicate such an evaluation.Scrutinise the credibility of companies' plans for offsetting their emissions through carbon dioxide removals or emission reduction credits, recognising that voluntary carbon markets are highly fragmented and there remains a lot of uncertainty on credible good practice.The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor focuses on four main areas of corporate climate action: tracking and disclosure of emissions, setting emission reduction targets , reducing own emissions and taking responsibility for unabated emissions through climate contributions or offsetting. Finally, it evaluatates 25 major global companies' transparency and integrety across these four areas

Emissions gap NDC and net zero findings after COP27

Analysis of the level and robustness of various government climate pledges, both 2030 NDCs and net zero goals. This repository contains the data required to run https://github.com/Rlamboll/Emissions_Gap. "Analysis_update_12_14 (2).xlsx" contains the 2023 assessment of net zero pledges by governments in terms of both their quality and content. "Data_forextensions_PostCOP27_master.xlsx" contains the estimates of emissions until 2030 based on NDCs after COP27, "Data_forextensions_EGR2023_master.xlsx" contains the updated version for the paper "Credibility gap in net-zero climate targets leaves world at high risk". "2022_emission_gap_temp_summary_data.csv" is the output of the complete process. Versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 are identical in terms of processing, but more data is uploaded for 1.0.1 with scenarios with additional carbon price increase rates. Version 1.1.0 contains the Data_forextensions_EGR2023_master file. Data and calculation are associated with the paper at DOI: 10.1126/science.adg624

Credibility gap in net-zero climate targets leaves world at high risk

Global climate policy is undergoing a rite of passage. What used to be a conversation about ambitious target setting now focuses increasingly on implementation and interventions to achieve these targets. This liminal transition from ambition to implementation is complex and presents deep ambiguities that are challenging for scientists to communicate and decision-makers to fathom. A critical question is whether we can believe that countries will deliver on the commitments they have made. By evaluating policy characteristics of countries’ net-zero targets, we can assign the targets credibility ratings, then estimate how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and temperature are differentiated by our confidence in the targets. When we consider the credibility of current climate pledges, our assessment shows that the world remains far from delivering a safe climate future

Credibility gap in net-zero climate targets leaves world at high risk

Looking at policies instead of promises shows that global climate targets may be missed by a large margin.</p

Navigating Energy Transitions: Mapping the road to 1.5°C

This report highlights the implications of 1.5°C scenarios for the phase-out of fossil fuels and the scale-up to renewables, barriers to transitions and solutions to such challenges, and tools for governments and financial institutions to navigate the current energy crisis while maintaining climate ambition. It also looks at the implications of the war in Ukraine for energy systems and explores whether Europe can meet its gas demand without the Russian supply