15 Recent Trends in Global Climate Action from the Global Synthesis Report by Sector 2022

15 recent Global Climate Action Trends have been identified and analyzed in the 2022 edition of the Sector Report

The Climate Chance Observatory has analyzed recent trends related to companies, local authorities, and civil society organizations’ actions that help explain the evolution of emissions.

The 2022 trends cover 5 major sectors: energy, transport, buildings, industry, waste, and land use.

Energy

Fossil Fuels: The growth of renewables is still not enough to feed the insatiable energy appetite of the economic recovery.

Renewables: Africa pursues the development of renewable energy, despite certain obstacles.

Adaptation: Between the revival of fossil fuels and emergency sufficiency, the difficult process of adapting electricity grids.

Transport

Road Transport: Metals, the precious fuel for the automotive market in the race for electrification.

Aviation: Air traffic takes off again, leaving the climate transition on the tarmac.

Maritime Transport: The energy transition in international shipping remains at the dock.

Rail: Heatwaves pushing the sector off its rails.

Urban Transport: Beyond the mobility transition, cities, are reorganizing the urban space for low-carbon mobility.

Buildings

Adaptation: Real estate plays are re-examining their foundations to adapt to climate change.

Commercial Buildings: From efficiency to renewable energy generation: Commercial spaces in search of renewal favouring the low-carbon transition.

Waste

International Trade: From illegal flows to local recycling, waste treatment is being reorganized.

Textiles: In Europe, the circular economy in textiles is being reinvented.

Land Use

Biodiversity: Biodiversity Corridors: Strengthening ecological connectivity to adapt ecosystems to climate change.

Deforestation: Rights of nature as a bastion against the destruction of natural ecosystems.

Agriculture: How the coffee industry is dealing with climate change.