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At COP 26, the Vietnamese government promised to end the construction of new coal plants and phase out the dirtiest of those already running. However, as Dr. Nandini Das of Climate Analytics points out, "this is not actually what Vietnam is doing at a national level", since new policies have yet to be implemented.

Experts and activists doubt the real capacity of governments and companies to deploy the four billion dollars a year that will be needed until 2030 to advance on the path towards energy neutrality.

Despite rays of hope, including fresh US legislation and a change of government in Brazil, progress in 2022 has been slow - with governments around the world distracted by global energy and financial crises. This article looks at seven key nations to ask who is leading the way and who is dragging their feet.

"We are now in a moment where geopolitics and energy security issues are combining to really hammer home the benefits of cheap renewables, yet we are still seeing many of these governments turning to fossil fuels as the solution." - Bill Hare

Climate Analytics Caribbean, along with the Ministry of Planning and Development and the UN Development Programme, held a workshop in anticipation of COP27 entitled "Prelude to COP27: How Trinidad and Tobago Can Lead the Region In Raising Resiliency".

“The report confirms the utterly glacial pace of climate action, despite the looming precipice of climate tipping points we’re approaching,” - Bill Hare

Emissions are still rising but they need to fall 45% by 2030. Claire Fyson of Climate Analytics highlights that we are "not moving fast enough."

"The G20 is responsible for three-quarters of the world’s emissions. We are now in a moment where geopolitics and energy security issues are combining to really hammer home the benefits of cheap renewables." Bill Hare comments on fossil fuels subsidies.

The findings of the report 'The Climate Transparency Report 2022' is discussed in an article by GreenBiz where Bill Hare is quoted commenting on the countries supporting the usage of fossil fuels.

Across virtually every sector, the decarbonisation of the global economy is unfolding far too slowly to avoid climate catastrophe. In regards to climate finance, "Governments and private institutions are failing to deliver on the Paris Agreement's goals of aligning financial flows with the 1.5C limit," says Claire Fyson, an analyst at Climate Analytics.