13th March 2024
To monitor progress – ie whether nations are meeting the targets they set for themselves with their NDCs – there is the work of an independent body, the Climate Action Tracker.
“The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project 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 organisations, Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009.” https://climateactiontracker.org/
In 2022 the UK updated its NDC, as part of the COP26 agreement, to commit to reducing it economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels. (https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/NDC/2022-06/UK Nationally Determined Contribution.pdf)
The diagram below shows Climate Action Trackers assessment for the UK as of of September 2023. There clearly room for improvement.
The Green Tau 