QoG Data

Accountable Climate Targets

Data source: Frida Boräng, Simon Felgendreher, Niklas Harring, and Åsa Löfgren

Data used in the article:

Boräng, F., Felgendreher, S., Harring, N. and Löfgren, Å., 2019. Committing to the climate: a global study of accountable climate targets. Sustainability, 11(7), p.1861.

The authors assess and compare the accountability of climate targets as outlined in the nationally determined contributions (NDC) of the Paris Agreement.

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Country

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Boräng, F., Felgendreher, S., Harring, N., & Löfgren, Å. (2019). Committing to the climate: A global study of accountable climate targets. Sustainability, 11(7), 1861. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071861

@article{act1,
 author = {Boräng, Frida and Felgendreher, Simon and Harring, Niklas and Löfgren, Åsa},
 doi = {10.3390/su11071861},
 journal = {Sustainability},
 last_updated = {2026-03-11},
 month = {3},
 number = {7},
 pages = {1861},
 publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
 title = {Committing to the climate: a global study of accountable climate targets},
 volume = {11},
 year = {2019}
}

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Accountable Climate Target

QoG code: act_act

A binary measure of whether a country has an accountable climate target (ACT) or not. An ACT is a precise emissions target for which other countries can hold a country - and only that country - accoun ...

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