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    22 Resources for
    Tracking Climate Action
    Climate
    Initiatives
    June 27, 2013

    Greenhouse Gas Protocol

    The São Paulo skyline behind Ibirapuera Park. The city's urban trees are part of the greater Atlantic Forest ecosystem. Photo by Flávio Jota de Paula/Flickr.
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 29, 2024

    Tracking Progress: Climate Action Under the Biden Administration

    • National Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • carbon removal
    • climatewatch-pinned
    President Joe Biden visits Flatirons Campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado.
    • National Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • carbon removal
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Technical Perspectives
    November 15, 2023

    When Non-state Actors Are Transparent About their Climate Actions, the Benefits Go Both Ways

    • Tracking Climate Action
    • corporate sustainability
    • climate policy
    People on bicycles on a sunny street with palm trees and city buildings in the background.
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • corporate sustainability
    • climate policy
    Cities
    Insights
    September 14, 2023

    These Countries Are Adopting Electric Vehicles the Fastest

    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
    • transportation
    An electric car is charging on the side of a tree-lined road.
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
    • transportation
    Climate
    Insights
    August 1, 2023

    5 Shifts Needed to Decarbonize Industry

    • industry
    • Energy
    • energy efficiency
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
    • climatewatch-pinned
    A family walks past an industrial harbor.
    • industry
    • Energy
    • energy efficiency
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2023

    2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
    Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
    Food
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Food-Climate Connection Rises on the Global Agenda

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    People picking vegetables at a farmers' market
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Climate
    Africa
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    South Africa Sets Stronger Emissions-reduction Target

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Solar panels on rooftop of building in Cape Town, South Africa
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    COP26 Advances Ambitious Climate Action and Nature-based Solutions

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Scotland, Glasgow, Clydebank, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre aka SECC
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Finance
    Asia
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    China Commits to Reduce Investment in Overseas Coal Power Projects

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Men working on the embankments of the Nairobi to Mombasa section of the China funded Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Infrastructure Bill Allocates Billions for Clean School Buses, Carbon Removal

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Multi-ethnic group of elementary age children getting on a school bus
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Brazil Commits to Reduce Traffic Deaths 50% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    People and traffic in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    Forests
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Global Forest Watch Helps Indigenous Peoples Reduce Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Aerial view over a tropical forest with a river meandering through the canopy
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Business
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Private Equity Firms, Managing $232 Billion in Assets, Set Science-based Emissions Targets

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    buildings in Montreal, Canada
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Government Sets Target to Reduce Emissions 50-52% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    cleaning solar panels
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    Insights
    July 28, 2022

    5 Reasons Cities Should Include Trees in Climate Action

    • GHG emissions
    • Forests
    • Climate
    • Tracking Climate Action
    A landscape view of Jakarta, Indonesia with trees in the forefront and skyscrapers in the background
    • GHG emissions
    • Forests
    • Climate
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Climate
    News
    October 28, 2021

    RELEASE: Progress lagging across all sectors to limit warming to 1.5 C, but rapid change is possible, finds new report

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Climate
    Data
    June 25, 2021

    Climate Watch Slide Deck

    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action

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