Countries around the world have committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal of ‘limiting global temperature rise to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C’ (UNFCCC, 2015a). However, despite these commitments, there remain significant gaps in both the ambition of these targets as well as their implementation.
The Global Stocktake, conducted at COP28, highlighted these gaps, signalling the need for more vigorous and coordinated efforts to reduce emissions. The need for clear, measurable pathways towards net-zero emissions has thus become increasingly important.