The world is currently off track to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), a threshold that would prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis while boosting jobs and economic opportunities worldwide. Yet this goal can still be achieved through aggressive climate action across both the public and private sectors. To ensure the world gets on track, we must closely and transparently monitor progress using rigorous and credible methods. 

WRI provides decision-makers with a range of tools and guidelines to track and strengthen their climate action. 

Active Projects, Initiatives and Reports

  • Climate Watch promotes transparency and accountability by providing governments with credible and consistent data on national emissions and future climate commitments. It also enables countries to analyze and compare targets to enhance their own efforts to combat climate change.
  • Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides accountability standards, tools, guidance frameworks and online training to help corporations, cities and others measure and reduce emissions.
  • Systems Change Lab is a collaborative initiative that engages in monitoring, learning from and accelerating the transformational systems changes required to protect both people and the planet.
  • Through partnerships like the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), we integrate guidance, capacity building and knowledge sharing in tools to help countries assess the impacts of their policies and actions.
  • The State of Climate Action report series leverages the latest research and data to show how much nations must accelerate climate action across sectors to come to grips with the climate crisis.

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