COP28 and fossil fuels: Signal set, ambition and implementation loop must...

The COP28 concluded with the first ever Global Stocktake by calling on parties to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems...

Call for more ambition ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, called on all countries to come with concrete solutions to the Climate Ambition Summit, which he organises on 23...

Event: Launch of the Brown to Green Report 2019 in Mexico

Iniciativa Climática de México (ICM) and Climate Transparency in alliance with UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) and the Plataforma México Clima y...

Christiana Figueres and others about the Brown to Green Report

The Brown to Green Report 2018 comparing G20 climate acrtion informs policy makers and stimulates national debates. Christiana Figueres, Michał Kurtyka, Connie Hedegaard, Paul Polman...

G20 Decarbonisation – Coal needs to go

Energy and Carbon Intensity For the G20 as a whole, the energy intensity of the economy (TPES/GDP) and the carbon intensity of the economy (CO2/GDP)...

Emissions in G20 countries – A turning point?

G20 countries represent two thirds of the world population, and four fifths of global economic output, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP). Collectively,...

Co-Chairs: Too little, but not too late for 1.5°C

By Alvaro Umańa and Peter Eigen, Co-Chairs of Climate Transparency We are in the midst of a crisis that threatens the very foundations of our...

Winds of Change from the East

Joe Biden’s Leaders’ Summit was the first mile of a marathon of climate events in 2021. Probably the most interesting and important aspect –...

Emissions in G20 countries – Still not declining

The G20 states are responsible for 74.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions. From 1990 to 2013, their absolute energy-related CO2 emissions have increased by 56%....

From the G7 to the G20 – international climate ambition

A month after Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate the G7 Summit in Cornwall provides an opportunity for the world’s richest nations to get serious...

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