GHG / Climate Change / Climate Warming

Climate TRACE Report: When, Where, and How: Source-level solutions for turning climate ambition into on-the-ground action

In 2025, renewable energy growth has accelerated globally with new solar and wind generation meeting all new electricity demand. Despite this progress, global emissions have continued to rise slightly by 0.39% compared to 2024, and atmospheric CO₂ reached record levels.

Amazon Launches New Projects Expected to Restore over 2 Billion Liters of Water Annually

Amazon launches four new nature-based initiatives designed to replenish more than 2 billion liters of water each year across North America and Latin America. The projects deepen Amazon’s shift toward watershed-level climate resilience, bolstering ecosystems while reducing long-term operational water risk. In 2025, renewable energy growth has accelerated globally with new solar and wind generation meeting
all new electricity demand. Despite this progress, global emissions have continued to rise slightly by 0.39% compared to 2024, and atmospheric CO2 reached record levels.

When, Where, and How - Source-level solutions for turning climate ambition into on-the-ground action

In 2025, renewable energy growth has accelerated globally with new solar and wind generation meeting all new electricity demand. In addition, roughly 75% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are now covered by net zero commitments. Despite this progress, global emissions have continued to rise slightly by 0.39% compared to 2024, and atmospheric CO₂ reached record levels, leaving a substantial gap between current policies and what is needed to limit global warming. This white paper provides in-depth graphical analyses of various GHG factors from around the world. 

Climate Risks to Global Supply Chains

Extreme weather events are increasing in both intensity and frequency as climate change progresses. This paper presents specific examples and an analysis of how past extreme weather events affected supply chains, and how the public and private sectors should prepare for and try to mitigate future shocks. 

International Standards Organization (ISO) - Net Zero Guidelines: Accelerating the Transition to Net Zero

This is the ISO standard describing Net Zero guidelines, benefits, leadership and commitment, targets, and measurement and monitoring standards. Click on the "free download" link to open the ISO website to download your own personal copy.

Website: Climate Interactive - En-Roads Simulator

This is the home site for the En-Roads Simulator.  This website offers an interactive use of the tool itself as well as future events, resources, testimonials, and how to best use the tool. 

YouTube video: En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator - Overview and Introduction

This is an introduction to the En-ROADS Simulator and the main features that it offers. En-ROADS can help you understand climate solutions, how to make an impact in the world, and how it can help us meet our climate goals. It allows users to explore the impact that electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices have on energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise. En-Roads was developed by Climate Interactive, MIT Sloan, and Ventana Systems.

A Climate Change/Climate Warming Primer

Website offering interactive articles on Climate Science, Climate Change, Risks, and Solutions.

Soil-based Carbon Sequestration

Over the past 12,000 years, the growth of farmland has released about 110 billion metric tons of carbon from the top layer of soil2—roughly equivalent to 80 years’ worth of present-day U.S. emissions.3 The question is: Can this trend be reversed at the global scale as part of a strategy to help fight climate change?

Food Systems and Agriculture

The planet’s growing population and food consumption will require food production to increase by 70% by 2050.2 At the same time, the production, storage, and transport of food causes greenhouse gas emissions which contribute to climate change.

Can the Saguaro Cactus Really Fight Global Warming?

Saguaros - and all cactus - are carbon-eating machines. All plants sequester – or trap – atmospheric carbon (CO2) as they grow. After they die, most of that carbon goes back into the atmosphere as the plant decays. But when a saguaro dies, much of that carbon is transformed into an inorganic mineral that is sequestered for geologic time in the ground.

Climate Trace - Project website depicting new tools and research to identify sources of GHG.

What we know today about global greenhouse gas emissions is mostly self-reported by countries, and those numbers (sometimes tallied manually on paper!) are often inaccurate and prone to manipulation. If we really want to get serious about fighting climate change, we need a way to track carbon pollution in real-time and identify the worst culprits

Climate Trace:  Bringing Radical Transparency to Global Emissions

Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to submit national inventories including detailed descriptive and numerical information about their GHG emissions and removals. While most high-income countries have the financial and capacity resources to produce annual inventories, those inventories have shortcomings and struggle with hard-to-measure sectors such as land use change and landfills.

Executive Summary - The Net-Zero Transition - What It Would Cost, What It Could Bring

Since its founding in 1990, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has sought to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. As the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company, MGI aims to help leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors understand trends and forces shaping the global economy.

Net-Zero Challenge:  The Supply Chain Opportunity - Insight Report

Addressing supply-chain emissions enables many customer-facing companies to impact a volume of emissions several times higher than they could if they were to focus on decarbonizing their own direct operations and power consumption alone – and achieving a net-zero supply chain is possible with very limited additional costs. This report shows how.

CPA Australia Net Zero Emissions Pathway

This Net Zero Emissions Pathway encompasses CPA Australia’s actions with respect to transitioning to green energy, reducing waste and improving energy efficiency in our places of work, tracking emissions generated through travel and in our supply chains, and promoting sustainability as a principal component of financial reporting.

Our Journey: The Accounting Bodies’ Road to Net Zero

Fourteen A4S Accounting Bodies Network (ABN) members signed a commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within their own organizations as soon as operationally possible, as well as to provide support for their members to do the same. They share here their combined experience to help others implement their own net zero GHG emissions pathways.  This article contains links to 14 countries and organizations who are progressing to Net Zero. 

The Bottom Line on Ground Truth Data

Climate TRACE’s approach has been based on using satellite imagery and other forms of remote sensing, paired with machine learning, to develop independent, empirical, accurate estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A crucial part of that approach involves also leveraging ground truth data. This article explains what it is; when, where, and how we use it; and some common challenges we’ve had to address.

Tracking Emissions State by State

The year-long pilot has used satellite and other remote sensing data combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to provide six states and regions around the world with a recent time series of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data. The project has successfully generated emissions data for nearly all major emitting sectors of the states’ economies. 

Website:  GHGSat.com - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring

GHGSat is the global leader in high-resolution remote-sensing of greenhouse gas from space and provides unique emissions data and intelligence to businesses, governments, regulators, and investors worldwide. Satellite-based emission monitoring solutions and analytics tools provide actionable metrics and insights that empower the economies of tomorrow.  Includes information about their satellite technologies, methane mapping, case studies, and access to their publications.

HBR Research Report - Driving Sustainability Strategy Home: Effective Practices That Take Businesses’ Impact Beyond Profit

This report explores the topic of sustainability and what distinguishes leaders in the field from others. One notable difference for leaders is the set of key drivers they use for their sustainability strategies. Leaders are more motivated by the belief that pursuing sustainability “is the right thing to do.”  This report examines the current state of sustainability strategies of organizations around the globe and explores what steps leaders are taking that enable them to implement their sustainability strategies more effectively.