Production Gap Report 2023 Launch Event
The Production Gap Report tracks the misalignment between governments’ planned and projected production of coal, oil, and gas and the global production levels consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal. Now, in its fourth edition, this year’s report features two major updates to the production gap analysis, drawing on changes in government plans and projections since August 2021 and the new mitigation scenarios database compiled for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. The report also provides a more detailed assessment of the global coal, oil, and gas reduction pathways needed to keep the 1.5°C goal in reach.
The report also features individual country profiles for 20 major fossil-fuel-producing countries, evaluating governments’ latest climate ambitions and their plans, policies, and strategies that support fossil fuel production or the transition away from it: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.
Learn about all this and more in a special event highlighting this year’s key findings with the lead authors and climate experts. This report is produced by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Climate Analytics, E3G, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
This event is hosted by SEI.
Agenda
Welcome
Niklas Hagelberg, Senior Programme Coordinator, UNEP
Presentation of Findings
Ploy Achakulwisut, Research Fellow and Production Gap Report co-lead, SEI
Michael Lazarus, US Centre Director and Production Gap Report co-lead, SEI
Discussant
Andrea Guerrero Garcia, Director of Field Innovation, Growald Climate Fund
Q&A
Moderated by Lynsi Burton, Communications Officer, SEI
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