How to ensure governments stay on track to meet the 1.5°C target

The recent “global stocktake” report, discussing where the world stands on climate action, shows conclusively that governments are not on track to meet international temperature goals, while adaptation and finance actions are also lagging. Critics of the stocktake process have been sceptical about its ability to catalyse sufficiently greater ambition – but it may yet produce positive outcomes, even where policy and implementation gaps remain, argue Daniel Berliner, Ian Higham and Joana Setzer.