22 October, 2025

State of Climate Action 2025

Authors

Clea Schumer, Sophie Boehm, Joel Jaeger, Yuke Kirana, Kelly Levin

The State of Climate Action 2025 provides the world’s most comprehensive roadmap for closing the global gap in climate action across sectors, along with a detailed report card tracking progress to close this gap. It translates the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit into clear, actionable targets for 2030, 2035, and 2050 that outline how to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the world’s highest-emitting sectors — power, buildings, industry, transport, forests and land, and food and agriculture, and tracks global progress toward them.

The report shows that efforts fall far short of what’s needed to limit warming to 1.5°C. While most indicators are heading in the right direction, none of the 45 indicators is on track for 2030.

An enormous acceleration in global climate action is needed across every sector to limit warming to 1.5°C.

Despite overall insufficient global efforts, the report also highlights encouraging pockets of progress. A surge in private climate finance, rapid uptake of solar power and significant progress in emerging innovations all underscore that rapid change is not only possible, but already underway.

Published under Systems Change Lab, this report is a joint effort between the Bezos Earth Fund, Climate Analytics, ClimateWorks Foundation, the Climate High-Level Champions and World Resources Institute.

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