Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries

The document examines the varied forms of greenhouse gas targets set by G20 countries, noting that many do not explicitly state absolute future emissions. To improve clarity, the paper converts these targets into absolute emissions levels for the years 2020, 2025, and 2030 and provides visual representations of these limits.

• Greenhouse gas targets vary significantly in form, including reductions based on historical emissions, projected business-as-usual scenarios, or economic emissions intensity.
• A lack of explicit absolute emission terms in many national targets makes it difficult to determine the actual trajectory of future emissions.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries. https://www.wri.org/research/translating-targets-numbers-quantifying-greenhouse-gas-targets-g20-countries

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/translating-targets-numbers-quantifying-greenhouse-gas-targets-g20-countries.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendtranslating, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Translating Targets into Numbers: Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Targets of the G20 Countries}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/translating-targets-numbers-quantifying-greenhouse-gas-targets-g20-countries}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }