Introduction For Post 65 we asked our Country Managers to rate their country’s progress in reducing emissions over the first sixth months of 2023 and identify and describe 2-3 policies, programs, and events that affected their country’s emission levels during this period. We asked them to provide whatever data exists that charts emissions in the...
Introduction In Post 64 we asked our Country Managers to describe a best practice example from their countries that began with an effort to advocate for a policy change and resulted in a change in government policy. The effort needed to have certain characteristics such as a focus on a climate related problem that could...
Introduction The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its most recent assessment reports, has underscored the urgency of countries reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 50% over pre-industrial temperatures by 2030. In Post 63 Climate Scorecard Country Managers were asked to rate their country’s chance of making this goal, and present an analysis of...
Introduction For Post 62, we asked our Country Managers to estimate and analyze the amount of funding (direct or indirect) that their countries spend annually on fossil fuel subsidies. We asked them to report on subsidies to oil and gas company production, fossil fuel supported home energy efforts, subsidies of fossil fuel imports and exports,...
Introduction Post 61 is intended to contribute to the Global Stocktake of efforts to address climate change under the Paris Agreement. It asks our Country Managers to describe the impact of climate change on indigenous communities; specifically to provide information and data that help answer the following questions: What are the demographic characteristics of indigenous...
Introduction Post 60 provides information on the status of emissions and production from the agriculture sector in 18 leading greenhouse gas emitting countries. It was developed drawing on data from Climate Trace. (www.climatetrace.org) Climate Scorecard Country Managers, using Climate Trace data, provided the number of tonnes of CO2 that the agriculture sector in their countries...
Introduction In Post 59 we asked our Country Managers to describe the most important climate event that took place in their countries in 2022. The event could be related to climate policies, programs, weather events, political happenings and more. Our Country Managers described this event and why it was important to their country’s ability or...
Introduction For Climate Scorecard Global Report #58 we asked our Country Managers to describe and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their country’s power grid system: How is the system organized, e.g. is it a decentralized system and if so, what sort of interconnectivity does it have? When was it built and what is the...
Introduction Climate Scorecard’s Report 57 seeks to identify one or more proxy measures for greenhouse gas emissions in leading greenhouse gas emitting countries. It builds on previous work that we have done on this topic that you can find in Report 49 and Report 53 for the countries we follow.We asked our Country Managers to...
Introduction A typical passenger vehicle emits approximately 4.6 metric tonnes of CO2 per year. This assumes that the average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel economy of approximately 22.0 miles per gallon and travels approximately 11,500 miles per year. There are many old cars on the road that still reflect these kinds...
