Press releases

"To me, neither of these papers suggests we have reached 1.5°C," Bill Hare comments on two papers published today in Nature Climate Change calculating how close we are to the longer-term Paris Agreement limit.

Only six of the countries the Climate Action Tracker analyses have submitted their new 2035 climate targets in time for the Paris Agreement's 10 February 2025 deadline, and only one — the UK — is proposing actions at home that are 1.5°C-aligned.

The Paris Agreement will remain the engine of global climate action long after Trump’s final term in office, yet his withdrawal today from the accord will leave a long lasting negative mark on the competitiveness of American business.

On Friday 22 Nov at COP29, Bill Hare comments on the latest round of text on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance, the Global Stocktake and the mitigation work programme

The combined global effect of government action on climate change has flat-lined over the last three years, underscoring a critical disconnect between the reality of climate change and the lack of urgency on policies to cut emissions, the Climate Action Tracker said in its global update, released today at COP29 in Baku, along with 2035 target recommendations for big emitters and the "COP Presidencies Troika".

In our updated report on the future of the LNG carrier shipbuilding industry, we find there's an even smaller need for these carriers to be built in the future, but that the industry continues to add capacity that simply won't be needed.