This significant piece of research from the Saïd Business School at University of Oxford maps, for the first time, the full ecosystem of global climate change action and suggests how members of the network can best achieve meaningful action within it.
This report by Climate Strategies, released in April 2021, examines and distils the key findings in 10 recent influential reports – providing a valuable one-stop resource highlighting the most effective, science-backed approaches to reducing emissions. The world entered the 2020s with greater commitment, potential and public support for climate action than ever before – the challenge this decade is to rapidly harness that promise into a sustained descent of greenhouse gas emissions. The climate action needed to halve emissions this decade, and get on a safe track to net zero emissions by 2050, calls for $1 trillion per year in investment. While the amount is significant, the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that countries can take swift political action and quickly mobilise resources in the face of a global crisis. Political leaders should seize the opportunity to place climate action at the heart of their recovery plans.
This report jointly produced in April 2017 by Carbon Tracker, Climate Action Tracker (Ecofys, Climate Analytics, New Climate Institute) the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Yale Data Driven, with support from Conservation International, The New Climate Economy, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport, Systemiq and We Mean Business. It outlines the necessary, desirable and achievable 2020 climate turning point across six economic sectors.
In 2017 several leading climate analysis organizations came together as part of the Mission 2020 campaign to define six milestones—in energy, transport, land use, industry, infrastructure, and finance—that would need to be met by 2020 to bend the curve in global greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a pathway consistent with the Paris Agreement. To achieve each milestone, the organizations identified two or more outcomes, and this working paper, written by the World Resources Institute takes stock of progress made toward those outcomes.