Carbon Emissions and Climate Change
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of “holding warming well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.” A collaboration of two organizations, Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009. CAT quantifies and evaluates climate change mitigation commitments, and assesses, whether countries are on track to meeting those. It then aggregates country action to the global level, determining the likely temperature increase by the end of the century. CAT also develops sectoral analysis to illustrate the required pathways for meeting the global temperature goals.
Urgent action to reduce global emissions is required to avoid dangerous climate change. We must begin now so as to be able to reduce emissions in a manner that does not further affect the global economy. In fact, because using energy more efficiently saves money and new energy technologies create jobs, the economy can actually benefit. But the longer we wait, the more abrupt and costly our responses will have to be.
Climate change is at once the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity humanity has ever faced. It is one that we can and must meet successfully to ensure our future.
Check back soon to learn more about the proposed Carbon Tax and how communities, organizations, businesses and governments around the world are dealing with carbon emissions.
