Policies in Key Countries

Australia
Department of Climate Change

• Australia's Carbon Pricing Mechanism: This C2ES brief summarizes the carbon price mechanism and other key features of the Clean Energy Future plan.
• Australia’s National Targets
• Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

Brazil

• Announcement of Brazil's Voluntary Pledge
• Minister highlights the government's policies for coping with climate change
• Executive Summary of Brazil's National Plan on Climate Change (December 2008)

 

Canada

• Environment Canada Climate Change Page
• Canada's Domestic Action

China

• China Fact Sheet: Climate Change Mitigation Measures in China (April 2007)
• China announces targets on carbon emission cuts
• President Hu Jintao’s statement at the UN Summit on Climate Change announcing that China will reduce its carbon intensity by a “notable margin” (September 2009)
• China's National Climate Change Programme (June 2007)

European Union

• European Union Fact Sheet: Climate Change Mitigation Measures in the European Union (December 2009)
• Emissions Trading in the European Union: Its Brief History (March 2009)
• Report: The European Union's Emissions Trading System in Perspective (May 2008)
• Summary of the European Commission's Proposed Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package (January 2008)
• European Commission Climate Change Page
• EU Climate and Energy Package
• Overview of the European Union Emissions Trading System (2005)

Germany

• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, including links to the Integrated Energy and Climate Change Programme

India

• India Fact Sheet: Climate Change Mitigation Measures in India (September 2008)
• India Climate Plan Summary (June 2008)
• Ministry of Environment and Forests
• India's Solar Mission
• Announcement of Solar Mission
• India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (June 2008)

Indonesia

• President Yudhoyono pledges to cut emissions by 26 percent by 2020 from "business as usual" (BAU) levels

 

Japan

• Statement by Prime Minister Hatoyama at the UN Summit on Climate Change announcing an absolute emission reduction target of 25 percent below 1990 levels (September 2009)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Climate Change Page

Mexico
SEMARNAT

• National Strategy on Climate Change – Programa especial de cambio climatico (August 2009)

South Africa

• South Africa Announces Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts
• South Africa Framework for Climate Policy (July 2008)
  Media Release
• Government's Vision, Strategic Direction and Framework for Climate Policy (PowerPoint Presentation)

South Korea

• Announcement of Target of 30 Percent from BAU by 2020

United Kingdom
Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

• UK Low Carbon Transition Plan

United States

• U.S Emission Reductions Target

International Emissions Targets

UNFCCC Resources

• Submissions of Annex I Parties relating to Appendix I of the Copenhagen Accord
• Submissions of non-Annex I Parties relating to Appendix II of the Copenhagen Accord
• UNFCCC Statement - Submissions of national pledges (February 1, 2010)
• National Communications for Annex 1 countries
• National Communications for Non Annex 1 countries