Chaianong A, Malhotra P, Milioritsas I, Weko S, Lilliestam J (2025)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Other publication type
Publication year: 2025
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Summary
With less than 25 years left before industrialized countries have committed to reaching net-zero
emissions, understanding how full decarbonization can be achieved is more important than ever.
Across the world, countries are progressing towards this goal, perhaps not yet fast enough, but there
is nevertheless substantial progress. This means the technical and political context is evolving and
creating new drivers and barriers for continued decarbonization. There is also much policy activity from
which we can and should draw experiences for coming policies. Today, these aims are hindered by a
lack of data: other than for techno-economic variables, energy policy and political data are scarce, and
machine-readable data even more so. In NFDI4Energy, we address this problem.
In the present deliverable, we tackle the challenge of consistent target data in energy scenarios or
energy or climate policy analyses. We develop time-series datasets on decarbonization targets,
specifically climate (greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction) and renewable electricity targets for
27 European Union (EU) countries. We started with the EU countries because their target formats are
mostly uniform, which helps us develop a data collection protocol to make them machine-readable
and consistent. In addition, both datasets are designed to allow the addition of further countries,
including the severely understudied regions outside the OECD and G20 world, especially low-income
countries, in upcoming work within NFDI4Energy.
We manually gathered the data drawing on primary (e.g., national and European target policies or
decisions; the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) from the NDC registry of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change) and secondary data sources (e.g., existing but not
machine-readable datasets, published analyses) to ensure that the dataset is both correct and up to
date with the latest target announcement and to ensure completeness to the extent possible. The final
dataset holds data on two variables (climate and renewable electricity targets), with a target
announcement year from 1997 to 2023 for climate targets and from 2001 to 2022 for renewable
electricity targets.
APA:
Chaianong, A., Malhotra, P., Milioritsas, I., Weko, S., & Lilliestam, J. (2025). Data on climate and renewable electricity targets. Deliverable 2.2.2.2.
MLA:
Chaianong, Aksornchan, et al. Data on climate and renewable electricity targets. Deliverable 2.2.2.2. 2025.
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