The Climate Ledger

The Global Carbon Bill

A ledger of who emits, who transitions, who pays and who suffers. Emissions, energy mix, pledges, finance flows and physical risk — the same country roster, seen across eight chapters.

NDC targets, coal pipeline (GEM), climate finance (OECD DAC / GCF), EM-DAT disasters — snapshot dated 2025-08-01 (1y 2mo ago). Curated data may lag the live series. View data sources.
Updated livesource: World Bank
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Updated 1.1 yr agosource: UNFCCC
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Tracked-world CO₂
World Bank EN.ATM.CO2E.KT
YoY change
vs prior year total
Top-5 share
concentration among top 5
Global temp anomaly
+1.28°C
NASA GISTEMP · 2024
Live: World Bank climate series (EN.ATM.*, EG.ELC.*, EG.USE.*, AG.LND.*, ER.LND.*, SP.URB.*). Curated: UNFCCC NDC Registry, Global Energy Monitor coal tracker, OECD DAC + GCF finance, EM-DAT, NASA GISTEMP.
Chapter 1

The Global Bill

Every year the world burns a little more carbon than the last. The scoreboard: absolute tonnes, the year-over-year direction, and how concentrated the emissions are among a handful of countries.

Chapter 2

The Divergence

Absolute emissions tell you who to blame today; per-capita tell you the harder question of what a citizen consumes. Toggle the two views to see how the ranking rearranges.

Chapter 3

The Energy Mix

Electricity is the fastest-decarbonising sector — but only for some. The stacked bars show where each economy still leans on coal and where renewables have taken over.

Chapter 4

The Renewables Race

Twenty-five years of transition, in ten lines. Reference line marks the 50% renewable-electricity threshold — the moment a grid stops being fossil-first.

Chapter 5

The Coal Pipeline

Operating capacity is a legacy story. What’s under construction and announced is the future — and it’s still overwhelmingly concentrated in a handful of Asian economies.

Chapter 6

Climate Finance

The Paris Agreement promised $100 billion a year from rich countries to poor. Here’s what was pledged, what has actually landed and the ratio between them.

Live World Bank series: EN.ATM.CO2E.KT · EN.ATM.CO2E.PC · EN.ATM.METH.KT.CE · EN.ATM.NOXE.KT.CE · EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3 · EG.ELC.COAL.ZS · EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS · EG.USE.COMM.FO.ZS · EG.IMP.CONS.ZS · AG.LND.FRST.ZS · ER.LND.PTLD.ZS · SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS. Coverage this session: 0/24 tracked emitters returned CO₂ data.

Curated snapshots: UNFCCC NDC Registry (2035 targets, 2025-08-01), Global Energy Monitor Global Coal Plant Tracker, OECD DAC + Green Climate Fund flows, EM-DAT climate-disaster counts 1990-2024, NASA GISTEMP v4 temperature anomaly.

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