State of Climate Action 2025

The State of Climate Action 2025 provides the most comprehensive roadmap yet for closing the global gap in climate action. It is a global assessment report that measures whether the world is taking climate action quickly enough to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C. The report translates this goal into specific targets for 2030, 2035, and 2050 across major sectors including energy, buildings, industry, transport, forests and land use, agriculture, carbon removal, and climate finance, and evaluates actual progress against these benchmarks. It finds that although some positive progress has been made, none of the 45 indicators assessed are currently on track to meet their 1.5°C-aligned targets, with many requiring a twofold to tenfold acceleration in action. Key concerns include slow reductions in deforestation and coal power, insufficient climate finance, and continued support for fossil fuels, while areas such as electric vehicle adoption and private climate finance show improvement but remain inadequate. The report identifies the scale of action needed this decade, including much faster coal phase-outs, reduced deforestation, expanded public transport, lower emissions-intensive consumption patterns, increased carbon removal, and significantly greater climate finance to keep global climate goals within reach

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