Emissions Gap NDC and Net Zero Findings After COP27

Analysis of the level and robustness of various government climate pledges, both 2030 NDCs and net zero goals. The data supports an open-source analysis tool and contains a recent assessment of net zero pledge quality and content, plus emissions estimates until 2030 based on NDCs. The repository is authored by Joeri Rogelj of Imperial College London.

Use Cases

• Assess the quality and content of government net zero pledges based on the analysis update.
• Model emissions trajectories until 2030 based on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
• Compare the robustness of different national climate pledges mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data supports an open-source analysis tool (Emissions_Gap) hosted on GitHub.
• Contains a recent assessment of government net zero pledges.
• Includes emissions estimates until 2030 based on NDCs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Imperial College London

Collection Method

Analysis of government climate pledges.

Time Range

Estimates until 2030.