Table 3 Fourteen Glasgow sector initiatives selected for the assessment in this study

Energy supply

Glasgow Breakthroughs: Hydrogen^a

The Breakthrough aims to make affordable renewable and low-carbon hydrogen globally available by 2030.

Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA)

BOGA’s core members are committing to end new concessions, licensing or leasing rounds and to set a Paris-aligned date for ending oil and gas production.

Power

Global Coal to Clean Power Transition (GCCPT) statement

GCCPT signatories pledge to rapidly scale up their deployment of clean power generation and energy efficiency measures in their economies.

GCCPT aims to:

- To rapidly scale up technologies and policies in this decade to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030 s (or as soon as possible thereafter) for major economies and in the 2040 s (or as soon as possible thereafter) globally

- To cease issuance of new permits for new unabated coal-fired power generation projects (New’ coal-fired power generation projects are defined as coal-fired power generation projects that have not yet reached financial close), cease new construction of unabated coal-fired power generation projects and to end new direct government support for unabated international coal-fired power generation

Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA)

PPCA members commit to accelerating the transition from coal to clean energy, grounded in the objectives of the PPCA Declaration. We assume PPCA aims for unabated coal phase-out by 2030 for OECD countries and the EU, and by 2040 for the rest of the world, as implied in its Declaration. Although launched in 2017 already, PPCA was included in the analysis as it pushed for or collaborates with various other initiatives during COP26 (among which GCCPT and NNCC), and had 28 new members during COP26.

No New Coal Compact (NNCC)

NNCC signatories pledged to no longer build coal power plants

Glasgow Breakthroughs: Power

The Breakthrough aims to make clean power the most affordable and reliable option for all countries to meet their power needs efficiently by 2030.

Industry

Glasgow Breakthroughs: Steel

The Breakthrough aims to make near-zero emission steel the preferred choice in global markets, with efficient use and near-zero emission steel production established and growing in every region by 2030.

Transport

Glasgow Breakthroughs: Road transport

The Breakthrough aims to make zero-emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable, and sustainable in all regions [by 2030].

Accelerating to Zero (A2Z) Coalition

Initiatives’ signatories commit to rapidly accelerating the transition to zero-emission vehicles. Signatories will work towards all sales of new cars and vans being zero emission globally by 2040, and by no later than 2035 in leading markets.

The declaration also recognises that “a sustainable future for road transport will require wider system transformation, including […] public and shared transport”.

International bunkers

Clydebank Declaration

The signatories of the Declaration are to support the establishment of green shipping corridors – zero-emission maritime routes between 2 (or more) ports.

International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition

Coalition members are to advance ambitious actions to reduce aviation CO₂ emissions at a rate consistent with efforts to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5 °C.

Land use

Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use (“Glasgow Forest Declaration”)

The Glasgow Forests Declaration’s signatories are to conserve forests and other terrestrial ecosystems and accelerate their restoration

Glasgow Breakthroughs: Agriculture^a

The Breakthrough aims to make climate-resilient, sustainable agriculture the most attractive and widely adopted option for farmers everywhere by 2030.

Non-CO₂ GHGs

Global Methane Pledge

Participants joining the Pledge agree to take voluntary actions to contribute to a collective effort to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030