Publications
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Pathways for Meeting India’s Climate Goals
by , , , , , , , , and -This paper analyzes India’s climate change mitigation goals to enhance understanding, evaluate implementation progress, and identify opportunities for enhancing ambition.
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Enhancing NDCs by 2020: Achieving the Goals of the Paris Agreement
by , , and -This paper outlines a menu of options for enhancing NDCs by 2020 pursuant to the Paris Agreement. The menu includes options for enhancing the level of mitigation ambition of the NDC, elaborating or updating the adaptation content of an NDC, adding measures or actions to strengthening implementation and improving the clarity, transparency and understanding of the NDC.
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How Can Indonesia Achieve Its Climate Change Mitigation Goal? An Analysis of Potential Emissions Reductions from Energy and Land-Use Policies
by , , , , , and -This working paper identifies key national mitigation policies and quantifies their emissions abatement potential to allow Indonesia to select a strategy to deliver on its climate commitment. The analysis focuses on the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the land-use and energy sectors, which account for over 80 percent of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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Early Insights on Long-term Climate Strategies
by and -This paper sheds light on the initial long-term strategies that have been submitted to the UNFCCC and identifies key considerations for countries that are preparing to develop such strategies.
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A Tool for Designing a Policy Package to Achieve Indonesia’s Climate Targets
Summary of Methods and Data used in the Indonesia Energy Policy Simulator
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Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries
by , and -This working paper analyzes the varied greenhouse gas reduction targets of the G20 countries, including China, the United States, India, the European Union, and Brazil, to name a few. It translates countries’ targets into a common metric of absolute emissions levels in 2020, 2025, and 2030 and presents them visually to increase the clarity of countries’ proposed emissions limits.
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Achieving Mexico’s Climate Goals: An Eight Point Action Plan
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Interpreting INDCs: Assessing Transparency of Post-2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets for 8 Top-Emitting Economies
by , , , , and -In advance of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties put forward their post-2020 climate action plans.
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Bridging the Gap Between Energy and Climate Policies in Brazil
Policy Options to Reduce Energy-Related GHG Emissions
by , and -Until recently Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions have been dominated by deforestation and land use change. But good progress in reducing deforestation and rapid growth in energy use have shifted this balance so that emissions from land use change and energy are roughly equal.
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Climate Policy Implementation Tracking Framework
by , and -Countries around the world are increasingly developing policies to address climate change and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While this trend is encouraging, policies will only be successful in meeting the climate challenge to the extent that they are fully implemented.
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GHG Mitigation in Japan
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by -Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, Japan has embarked on a major revision of its energy policies.
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GHG Mitigation in India
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by , , and -Like other countries with emerging economies, India faces the dual challenge of reconciling its rapid economic growth with a pressing need to address climate change. In response, it has enhanced its international and domestic efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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GHG Mitigation in Brazil's Land Use Sector
An Introduction to the Current National Policy Landscape
by and -Brazil has developed a suite of sector-specific greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation actions that it estimates will result in a reduction of 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent below a projected hypothetical baseline in 2020.
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Mobilising International Climate Finance
Lessons from the Fast-Start Finance Period
by , , , , , , , and -Developed countries committed to provide US$ 30 billion in new and additional climate finance between 2010 and 2012 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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The Norwegian Fast-Start Finance Contribution
by , , , and -Developed country governments have repeatedly commit¬ted to provide new and additional finance to help developing countries transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Australia
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by , and -This report outlines Australia’s policy framework for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, identifies areas of potential change in the near term, and attempts to evaluate the impact of current policies on Australia’s emissions trajectory to 2020.
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The German Fast-Start Finance Contribution
by , , , , , and -Industrialized countries have repeatedly committed to provide new and additional finance to help developing countries transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.
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The U.S. Contribution to Fast-Start Finance
FY12 Update
by , , and -As part of the international climate negotiations, developed country governments committed to provide developing countries with “new and additional resources, including forestry and investments through international institutions, approaching $30 billion in the period 2010-2012 with balanced alloc
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A Critical Decade for Climate Policy
Tools and Initiatives to Track Our Progress
by -The last five years have seen both broad and deep advancements in national policies to mitigate future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the United Kingdom
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by -Domestic legislation – the Climate Change Act 2008 – commits the United Kingdom to an 80 percent emission reduction by 2050 on 1990 levels, and to a system of 5-year carbon budgets to progress toward that target. These carbon budgets require UK emission reductions
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the European Union
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by , and -In 2009, the European Union (EU) pledged a unilateral greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, rising to 30 percent if “other developed countries commit themselves to comparable emission reductions” (European Council 2009). The EU’s GHG
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the United States
An Overview of the Current Policy Landscape
by , and -In 2009, at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties, President Barack Obama pledged to reduce U.S.
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The Japanese Fast-Start Finance Contribution
by , , and -Developed country governments have repeatedly committed to provide new and additional finance to help developing countries transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.
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Delivering on the Clean Energy Economy
The Role of Policy in Developing Successful Domestic Solar and Wind Industries
by , and -The renewable energy industry is expanding to meet the needs of a large and growing global market for clean and secure energy.
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The U.S. Fast-Start Finance Contribution
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The UK Fast-Start Finance Contribution
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