Taking stock of the implementation gap in climate policy

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 July 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01755-9

A gap persists between the emissions reductions pledged by countries under the Paris Agreement and those resulting from their domestic policies. We argue that this gap in fact contains two parts: one in the policies that countries adopt, and the other in the outcomes that those policies achieve.
Nature Climate Change