Introducing performance distributions to visualise collective progress

The NewClimate Institute proposes using performance distributions to visualize country progress for the first Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement, allowing for the assessment of collective progress and national benchmarking without singling out individual countries.

• The NewClimate Institute proposes that the Global Stocktake (GST) utilize performance distributions to visualize anonymized country data. This approach is intended to meet the GST's mandate to evaluate collective progress while providing actionable information that can foster peer pressure among Parties and enable public scrutiny at the national level.
• Using greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as an example, the document notes that emissions remain above 2005 levels in 139 countries, with some more than doubling. While emissions continue to rise in most countries, 54 have seen a decline over the last five years, with frontrunners achieving a maximum decline rate of 5% per year and laggards increasing emissions by nearly 10% per year.
• Performance distributions offer several benefits for the GST: they align with the mandate to assess collective progress without naming and shaming individual countries, they allow independent actors to benchmark their own countries against others, and they reveal whether progress is widespread or limited to a few countries. This method can be applied to various indicators, including sectoral data like renewable power generation shares or international climate finance.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2022). Introducing performance distributions to visualise collective progress. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/introducing-performance-distributions-to-visualise-collective-progress

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. Introducing performance distributions to visualise collective progress. 2022. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/introducing-performance-distributions-to-visualise-collective-progress.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2022introducing, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{Introducing performance distributions to visualise collective progress}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/introducing-performance-distributions-to-visualise-collective-progress}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }