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The November 2024 Warming Projections Global Update by the NewClimate Institute reports that global warming projections for 2100 have stagnated over the last three years. Current policies set the world on a path toward 2.7°C of warming, while the most optimistic scenario, assuming full implementation of all announced targets, projects 1.9°C. The report highlights a critical disconnect between the escalating climate crisis and the urgency of government policy implementation, noting that while renewable energy growth is record-breaking, it is being offset by all-time high fossil fuel subsidies.

A briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) discussing a collaboration with University College London that argues for a global norm against new fossil fuel projects to align with 1.5°C climate goals.

The Climate Bonds Guide to Certification outlines a voluntary labelling scheme designed to ensure investments are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It provides a framework for certifying Use of Proceeds debt instruments, assets, and entities based on science-based eligibility criteria and independent verification.

The 'Climate Bonds Guide to Certification ASSETS' describes a voluntary labelling scheme designed to verify that investments, assets, and entities are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. The guide details the eligibility, types, and processes for certifying assets independently of their financing.

The 'Climate Bonds Guide to Certification' outlines the framework for certifying sustainability-linked debt instruments (SLDs) under the Climate Bonds Standard. The scheme aims to ensure that these instruments are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C by requiring science-based eligibility criteria, transition plans, and governance structures.

This insight brief from RMI discusses the need for corporate carbon accounting to shift from the simple assignment of emissions toward consequential accounting methods that assess the actual real-world impact of climate actions and business models.

This methodological note from the Stockholm Environment Institute describes an analysis of the distribution of global consumption emissions in 2030, based on the assumption that countries fulfill their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. The report highlights a persistent link between income inequality and carbon emissions, noting that the richest populations continue to consume a disproportionate share of the carbon budget required to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

This guide by the Center for International Environmental Law provides negotiators and allies with a framework for leveraging a July 23, 2025, International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion (AO) during COP30. The document outlines the ICJ's findings that climate action is a legal duty and provides specific strategies for applying these legal obligations to COP30 agenda items, including finance, mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage.

This report by the Climate Bonds Initiative outlines sustainable finance policies required to achieve the 1.5°C climate goal. It argues that a rapid transition is more economically beneficial than a slow one, as renewable energy costs are now lower than fossil fuels. The document proposes a policy framework based on three pillars: speed (accelerating action), guidance (steering the economy away from carbon-intensive investments), and simplification (streamlining sustainable investment processes).

This policy brief from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) explains the critical links between air pollution, human health, and climate change. It argues that prioritizing the immediate health benefits of reducing air pollutants can drive the policy changes necessary to achieve the IPCC's 1.5°C warming goal. The document highlights the role of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and introduces the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) and Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) as tools for cities and countries to plan integrated emission reduction strategies.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) assesses global progress toward six milestones established by Mission 2020 across energy, transport, land use, industry, infrastructure, and finance to determine if the world is on a path to stabilize global warming below 1.5°C.

This briefing from the World Resources Institute examines the complexities of aligning Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with national net-zero targets, long-term, low-emissions development strategies (LT-LEDS), and the global 1.5°C goal, providing recommendations for the design of next-generation NDCs due in 2025.