While many countries, regions, cities, companies and financial institutions have made more ambitious commitments to fight climate change, significant acceleration of action is needed this decade to keep the keep the 1.5°C temperature limit within reach.
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the gap in climate action by highlighting where recent progress must accelerate over the next decade across power, buildings, industry, transport, forests and land, food and agriculture, technological carbon removal and finance.
It translates the systemwide transformations that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds are necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C into 40 indicators of progress with 2030 and 2050 targets, such as phasing out unabated coal in electricity generation, effectively halting deforestation and much more.