Browsing Emissions Gap Reports by Issue Date
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The Emissions Gap Report 2012 – Executive Summary
(2012)One of the fundamental questions in the global climate negotiations is: what level of “ambition”, in terms of collective emission reductions, is needed to protect global climate? To help answer this question UNEP and the ... -
The Emissions Gap Report 2015 – Executive Summary
(2015)The year 2015 has the potential to become a turning point in global efforts to transform the prevailing social and economic development paradigm into a more sustainable one. The global community reached agreement in September ... -
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The Emissions Gap Report 2016: Annex A.1
(2016)This Technical Annex to Chapter 3 of the 2016 UNEP Emissions Gap Report provides technical background to the computations supporting the discussion in the chapter. It reproduces parts of the Annex to Chapter 2a of the 2015 ... -
Chapter 2. Pre-2020 Action: Trends and Progress - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)This chapter provides an update, based on the latest available scientific literature, on trends in global emissions and progress towards the G20 members meeting their Cancun Pledges. These trends give key indications of ... -
Chapter 4. Bridging the Gap: Sectoral Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potentials in 2030 - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The chapter provides a detailed review of greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials in 2030 for key economic sectors. Sectoral emission reduction potentials, also called bottom-up potentials, provide detailed estimates ... -
Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap: The Role of Short-lived Climate Pollutants - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)This chapter outlines the opportunities to reduce the emissions gap afforded by limiting emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). This is a topic that has not been included in previous Emissions Gap Reports. -
Chapter 5. Bridging the Gap: Phasing out Coal - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)If the temperature increase is to be kept well below 2°C by 2100, the global economy must undergo rapid decarbonization. -
Chapter 7. Bridging the Gap: Carbon Dioxide Removal - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)Carbon dioxide removal (sometimes called carbon removal or CDR) refers to a cluster of technologies, practices and approaches that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Despite the common denominator of ... -
Chapter 1. Scoping the Emissions Gap Report 2017 - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The assessment builds on all available information, including that reviewed by the IPCC in its fifth assessment report, as well as more recent scientific studies. The assessment production process has been transparent and ... -
The Emissions Gap Report 2017 - Executive Summary
(2017)The eighth UN Environment Emissions Gap Report provides an up-to-date scientific assessment of the global progress towards the emissions reductions required to be on track to meet the long-term goal of the United Nations ... -
Chapter 3 Appendix. A Methodology of national and global studies - The Emissions Gap Report 2017
(2017)This chapter provides an update on the mitigation challenge associated with the global temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, and the estimated global emission levels under various assumptions regarding the implementation ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2018 - Executive Summary
(2018)This is the 9th edition of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report. It assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible ... -
Bridging the Emissions Gap: The Role of Non-state and Subnational actors - Pre-release version of a chapter of the forthcoming UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2018
(2018)This publication is part of a collaborative series of reports by over 30 organizations released in concert with the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit, which showcase the extraordinary action of states, regions, cities, ... -
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Appendix Chapter 3 - The Emissions Gap Report 2018 [Online Appendices A.1: Methodology National and Global Studies; and A.2: The Impact of Uncertainties]
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Emissions Gap Report 2018
(2018-11)This 9th edition of the Emissions Gap Report assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible for the world to progress ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2019 - Executive Summary
(2019)This tenth edition of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report provides the latest assessment of scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and compares ... -
Annex C - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019
(2019)This annex reviews recent policy changes in energy supply, industry, transport, buildings, and agriculture and forestry in selected G20 countries including Argentina, Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South ...
