Publications

2015 is a critical year for the Green Climate Fund as the Fund is set to finally start running its operations, bringing to life the mechanisms that the Board has been designing over the past three years.

This Climate Action Tracker Update describes a new method to assess “comparable efforts” and the “fair share” of governments’ national greenhouse gas reduction proposals.

In this briefing, we outline the implications of different effort-sharing criteria and metrics on emission reduction efforts for South Africa in the post-2015 climate agreement.

Produced in collaboration with the African Climate Finance Hub, the report says deep global emissions reductions are the best way to head off Africa’s crippling adaptation costs.

Confusion remains about concepts like carbon neutrality, climate neutrality, full decarbonisation, and net zero carbon or net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Here we clarify these concepts.