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While the official UNFCCC negotiations made some limited progress, encouraging developments on the margins give hope that faster progress is possible.

Limiting global warming below 2°C – or even to below 1.5°C - remains technically and economically feasible, but only with political ambition backed by rapid action starting now, the Climate Action Tracker said today.

The Climate Action Tracker has updated analysis on national greenhouse gas emission reduction proposals for 2020 under the international climate negotiations.

The IEA recently developed three updated scenarios for the 2012 edition of Energy Technology Perspectives. Here we assess their probabilities of limiting warming to the long term climate goals mention in the Cancun agreement.

The Bangkok climate talks have not changed the gap between emission reduction pledges and what is to needed to get the world on track for limiting global warming to 2 and 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.