Climate target

States by intended year of climate neutrality.
  Already climate neutral or positive[Note 1]
  2030
  2035
  2040
  2045
  2050
  2053
  2060
  2070
  Unknown or undeclared
When countries plan a ban on new fossil fuel vehiclas.
  2020s
  2030s
  2040s
  2050s
Emission budget and necessary emission reduction pathways to meet the two-degree target agreed in Paris Agreement without negative emissions, depending on the emission peak[3]
World map for Sustainable Development Goal 13 Indicator 13.A.1: Green Climate Fund mobilization of $100 billion, 2018.
Share of energy consumption from renewable sources for EU and EEA countries 2020 and 2021, compared to the national targets for 2020. EU28 (including United Kingdom) pledged an average of 20 percent renewable energy for 2020, and EU27 reached 22 percent.

A climate target, climate goal or climate pledge is a measurable long-term commitment for climate policy and energy policy with the aim of limiting the climate change. Researchers within, among others, the UN climate panel have identified probable consequences of global warming for people and nature at different levels of warming. Based on this, politicians in a large number of countries have agreed on temperature targets for warming, which is the basis for scientifically calculated carbon budgets and ways to achieve these targets. This in turn forms the basis for politically decided global and national emission targets for greenhouse gases, targets for fossil-free energy production and efficient energy use, and for the extent of planned measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

At least 164 countries have implemented climate targets in their national climate legislation.[4]

  1. ^ "What is the difference between carbon-neutral, net-zero and climate positive?". plana.earth. PlanA.Earth GmbH. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  2. ^ "What does climate positive mean?". go-positive.co.uk. Go Climate Positive Limited. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  3. ^ Christiana Figueres u. a. (2017), "Three years to safeguard our climate", Nature (in German), vol. 546, no. 7660, pp. 593–595, Bibcode:2017Natur.546..593F, doi:10.1038/546593a, PMID 28661507
  4. ^ harrisson, thomas (2017-05-11). "Mapped: Climate change laws around the world". The database, produced by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law, includes more than 1,200 relevant policies across 164 countries. Retrieved 2023-08-14.


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