Publications

Limiting warming to 1.5°C is of paramount importance to protect the oceans. This briefing provides an overview of the latest science on key risks for ocean systems including from sea- level rise, ocean acidification and impacts on coral reefs and other marine and coastal ecosystems.

With an outlook to updated Nationally Determined Contributions, this briefing assesses how Parties are expected to do in terms of achieving their 2020 target and the implications for their post-2020 emissions trajectories.

This report from the CONSTRAIN project zeroes in on the remaining carbon budget as well as projected surface warming rates over the next 20 years.

The commonly agreed metric to aggregate emissions and removals of greenhouse gases under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement is the Global Warming Potential with a 100-year time-horizon (GWP100). This briefing looks at the pitfalls of applying a new metric, GWP*.

This report looks into what level of change is needed to bring the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions, due in 2020, in line with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal.

This report analyses three key areas where Turkey could accelerate its climate action: electricity supply, road and rail passenger transport and the residential buildings sector.