Deliverables

The deliverable presents the visual identity of the ACCLIMATE project, including the logo, colour palette, typography, and design templates for various formats. It also documents the structure of the ACCLIMATE website, which is designed and launched as the primary hub for communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement. The site hosts information about the project’s objectives, partners, news, deliverables and events while it will later integrate interactive tools and visualisation platforms.

This project management plan is designed to support the effective management of the ACCLIMATE project by detailing the decision-making structures and providing tools for effective continuous progress monitoring and management.

This report will help all project partners understand how to handle datasets and keep the machine-actionable Data Management Plan in ARGOS up to date. It includes clear descriptions and metadata for each dataset. It can also be useful for people outside the project who want to learn how data in the ACCLIMATE project is organized, stored, shared, and made available to others.

This deliverable provides an overview of the organizational quality assurance and quality control policies and measures in place at the Wuppertal Institute as the coordinator of the ACCLIMATE project. Moreover, it contains project-specific procedures for review and quality control of the project outputs. Finally, the deliverable contains a discussion of major implementation risks of the project and corresponding contingency strategies. This risk analysis is based on a premortem exercise that was conducted during the project coordination board meeting of 7 July 2025.

This report brings together assessments of the latest Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and the United States under ACCLIMATE Work Package 2. Using a common framework, the country teams assess NDCs against three criteria: fairness, feasibility, and adequacy. Fairness examines how the costs, benefits, and risks of climate action are distributed; feasibility considers the political, economic, social, institutional, and technological conditions affecting implementation; and adequacy assesses whether commitments and policies match the scale of transformation required for a net-zero pathway. The assessments combine documentation-based scoring with structured expert judgement, drawing mainly on official climate commitments, legislation, long-term strategies, and secondary sources. Across the cases, the report identifies recurring themes while also showing how these three criteria vary across different national political, economic, and institutional contexts.

This report examines how the first Global Stocktake (GST1) can facilitate the implementation of global climate commitments, paying particular attention to the transition away from fossil fuels (TAFF). An analysis of 113 nationally determined contributions (NDCs), complemented by case studies of Brazil, the EU, and Nigeria, reveals that, while GST1 is widely recognised, it is unevenly operationalised. Its outcomes are often reflected in NDCs without explicit attribution or concrete targets and measures. Meanwhile, domestic economic structures, development priorities, political institutions and access to finance strongly influence implementation.

The paper then examines international efforts to advance the GST1 commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels. Following the failure of COP30 to agree on a global fossil fuel roadmap, the First Intergovernmental TAFF Conference, held in Santa Marta in April 2026, offered interested countries an alternative platform. This conference established workstreams on national and regional TAFF roadmaps, fossil fuel-related macroeconomic dependencies and financial barriers, and producer-consumer alignment. It also paved the way for a second TAFF conference, which will be co-hosted by Tuvalu and Ireland.

The report argues that GST2 should shift from a broad assessment to providing actionable implementation guidance tailored to individual countries. The EU could support this shift by strengthening and broadening TAFF coalitions, pioneering TAFF roadmaps integrated with NDCs and long-term strategies, promoting TAFF within the UNFCCC and ensuring that international leadership is aligned with domestic action on fossil fuel subsidies and dependence.