Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change Policies around the World

Abstract

This briefing provides an overview on major countries sumrnarizing their greenhouse gas emission profiles, economic and political situation, major societal challenges and national policies relevant to tackle global climate change. The countries are marked green in above map. In alphabetical order these are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia , South Africa, and Turkey . We developed a common template to structure country briefings bringing together many different national but also international sources, such as assessments by Climate Action Tracker (CAT). For providing a comprehensive picture, briefings for China, the European Union, India, and USA are additionally included .These briefings are taken from 'Ciimate lnteractive', a not-for-profil organization based in Washington DC (see the countries & regions marked in blue in above figure). All material is designed as preparatory material for the climate change negotiation game (https://www .climateinteractive.org/).The new material compiled by HVL students of the master course "Climate Change and Climate Policy" enables to play the IS-region version of the game.