This is the virtual launch event of the 2024 edition of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report series, which tracks our progress in limiting global warming well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement. Since 2010, it has provided an annual science-based assessment of the gap between estimated future global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges, and where they should be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. NewClimate Institute has been contributing to the reports each year since 2014.

For this year's report, NewClimate Institute staff was part of the steering committee (Niklas Höhne) and co-led and contributed to Chapter 3 on the global landscape of NDCs and G20 progress (Takeshi Kuramochi, Leonardo Nascimento, Frederic Hans, Silke Mooldijk) and Chapter 6 on sectoral transformation (Judit Hecke, Louise Jeffery).