Global equity analysis of how climate pledges stack up against the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
The 2021 report demonstrates urgent need to act on equitable international action on phasing out fossil fuels
GLASGOW, November 2021 — The 2021 Civil Society Equity Review, endorsed by over 200 civil society organisations and social movements, focuses on the urgently needed phase out of fossil fuel extraction, raising critical equity questions.
The report features thirteen country profiles to demonstrate the diversity of challenges and opportunities in addressing fossil fuel production at the national and international level and suggests a framework for addressing supply-side equity issues as well both national and international policy interventions.
The report also applies the long-established equity analysis to countries’ climate pledges (NDCs) to assess how each country is delivering on the Paris Agreement’s goal of pursuing best efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. The results show that the actions proposed by countries, especially from wealthy countries like the UK and the US, are far from what’s required.
Learn more about the report and check out the country profiles.
7 years of equity reviews
In the period leading up to the 2015 Paris climate summit, we came together to conduct a civil society equity review of the emissions reductions pledges that countries were putting on the table there; over 150 organizations endorsed our review.
In 2016, we analyzed whether the climate commitments and finance pledges that Parties had promised were ambitious enough and tolerably fair.
In 2017 and then again in 2018, we further expanded on the analysis by highlighting the importance of considering the extreme levels of inequality plaguing our world.
Our 2019 report raised the issues of climate justice, equity and fair shares in the context of loss and damage from climate impacts.
The most current report, from 2021, raises crucial equity issues that arise in the context of the now urgently-needed phase out of fossil fuels, including by drawing on detailed cases studies from 13 countries from around the world.
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Who we are
As social movements, environmental and development NGOs, trade unions, faith and other civil society groups, we have come together to assess the climate commitments that have been put on the table through the UN climate negotiations.
We seek to identify which countries are offering to do their fair share, which need to do more, and present recommendations on how to close the emissions gap.
Are countries Doing their
Fair Share?
This video explains the assessment methodology that is used by the annual Civil Society Equity Reviews in our assessment of whether countries climate action pledges are consistent with their fair share of global climate action.
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