Assessing the progress, ambitions and challenges of the Global Stocktake

By Charlotta Henry
Key messages
The Global Stocktake shows whether the world is collectively making enough progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement including the temperature goal, increasing resilience, adaptation, aligning financial flows and providing climate finance.

The world needs to transition away from fossil fuels, triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency.

To keep the 1.5°C temperature goal in reach, an emission reduction of 43% is needed by 2030. The world is on track for just a 2% decrease with its current climate targets.

The upcoming COP meetings in Azerbaijan and Brazil will delve into collective, quantified goals on finance, and updating the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

The success of the first Global Stocktake will be determined in 2025 once the updated NDCs are tabled.
CO2 map

The world stands at a crossroads in the battle against climate change. With the impacts of climate change already being felt around the world, we asked some of the leading EU negotiators to reflect on the first Global Stocktake process.

MRV: A critical tool for tracking climate action progress

By Peter Taggart
Key messages
MRV systems are science- and procedure-based, and help countries, cities, organisations and companies monitor, report and verify their individual and collective actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

MRV systems are designed to complement and support existing reporting procedures, such as the UNFCCC inventories.

Everyone benefits from MRV systems because they operate on a local, national and global scale.

MRV systems require long-term investment – financial, technical and personnel – to function.
Scientists with a flask sampler

The world needs to drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. But how can we confidently measure the effectiveness of our efforts? Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems could provide the answer.

Tracking methane emissions: Making the invisible visible

By Kira Taylor
Key messages
The Global Stocktake shows whether the world is collectively making enough progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement including the temperature goal, increasing resilience, adaptation, aligning financial flows and providing climate finance.

The world needs to transition away from fossil fuels, triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency.

To keep the 1.5°C temperature goal in reach, an emission reduction of 43% is needed by 2030. The world is on track for just a 2% decrease with its current climate targets.

The upcoming COP meetings in Azerbaijan and Brazil will delve into collective, quantified goals on finance, and updating the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

The success of the first Global Stocktake will be determined in 2025 once the updated NDCs are tabled.
Methane hotspots

Countries are looking at how to make a 30% reduction of methane a reality by 2030, focusing on the oil and gas sector. For instance, in the US, the Methane Emissions Reduction Program introduces a charge on methane emitted by certain oil and gas companies. This charge will apply to facilities emitting over 25,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent every year and will start at $900 per metric ton reported in 2024.

ICOS Handbook 2024 published

13 May 2024
ICOS Handbook front cover

It is our pleasure to share that the ICOS Handbook 2024 has been published! 

This is the 4th edition of the ICOS Handbook and includes the most up to date information on the research infrastructure and National Networks and includes the new ICOS member countries, Greece and Ireland. 

New ICOS stations enable the study of climate change in new environments

06 May 2024
Lampedusa Ecosystem station pictured from above

At the beginning of 2024, ICOS gained 10 new stations in the network. Among them are the northernmost crop site in the network, an experimental carbon farming station in Belgium, and the first station in the ICOS network that measures greenhouse gases in all three ICOS domains.  

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