From promise to progress: Assessing global commitments for 2030

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in July

Notes: Official tracker for reporting SDG progress

Overall Progress of SDGs (2026)

Among the quantitative indicators,

• Only 15% are on track and 21% are making moderate progress.
• 32% are with only marginal gains and 17% with no progress at all.
• 15% have regressed below 2015 baseline level.

Format: Dashboards of variable format, accompanied by downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Unstated (Last updated in 2025)

Notes: Official dataset for reporting SDG progress

Format: Report, accompanied by a map-style dashboard and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, in June

Notes: Using additional data sources, and ranking all countries on their performance across all SDGs

Key Recommendations (2026)

There are eight priorities for accelerating SDG progress through 2030 and beyond:

1. End ongoing wars and redirect military expenditures toward peace and human development;
2. Establish an ambitious timeline for SDG implementation;
3. Organise implementation around six major transformations;
4. Adopt long-term investment plans to support these transformations;
5. Strengthen continental, regional, and local cooperation and investment;
6. Introduce new global taxes to finance global public goods;
7. Develop global governance frameworks for AI, biotechnology, and other emerging technologies; and
8. Establish new UN campuses in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Format: Dashboards of variable styles, accompanied by downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Using additional data sources, reporting more indicators, to show easily accessible data on country and yearly levels

NA - Does not provide an overall progress assessment, but it provides raw data that could be used for assessment.

(Last updated in 2023)

Format: Report, accompanied by dashboards on national or regional level and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, in February

Notes: A detailed analysis of the SDG progress for countries in the Asia and the Pacific region

Overall Progress of SDGs (2026)

• Despite social and economic gains, Asia‑Pacific is at risk of missing 2030 Goals. On the current trajectory, the region will miss 103 of the 117 measurable targets.
• In particular, the progress on climate action (Goal 13) is regressing at an alarming rate.
• Critical data gaps persist, which is hindering effective actions on progress towards the 2030 Goals.

Format: Report, accompanied by dashboards of variable formats

Update frequency: Annually, in October

Notes: Identifying key areas related to the intersection of climate and health to track and monitor, including country-level data sheets

Progress of Health-Related SDGs (2025)

• Overall: 12 of 20 key indicators tracking health threats have reached record levels, showing how climate inaction is costing lives, straining health systems, and undermining economies.
• Heat-related mortality: The rate of heat-related mortality has increased 23% since the 1990s, reaching an average 546 000 deaths per year.
• Food security: 123.7 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity associated with an increase in droughts and heatwaves.

Format: Report, accompanied by a map dashboard and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, in June

Notes: Including detailed policy recommendations specifically on SDG7

Progress of Target SDG7 (2026)

• Clean energy access: The global rate of access to electricity has stalled at 92 percent, with 655 million people were still without electricity. Achieving the 2030 target will require the pace of progress to more than triple to 1.35 percent per year.
• Cleaning cooking access: An estimated 75 percent of the global population have access to clean cooking. Projections of current trends suggest that 79 percent of the global population will have access by 2030, leaving 1.8 billion people mainly reliant on polluting forms of cooking.
• Renewables count towards 18.0% of the total final energy consumption. Building on the strong momentum for renewables will be critical, as current trends remain below what is needed to fully align with SDG7 and the commitment to triple global renewable energy capacity.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Following CBD’s target updating cycle

Data Level Available:

Notes: Illustrating which country has / has not submitted their NBSAP

Submission Progress (As of July 2026)

• 101 countries have submitted a NBSAP that is aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Format: Country rating

Update frequency: Each NBSAP round

Notes: An analysis that rates how well each country’s NBSAP is, from various perspective.

NA - Does not provide an overall progress assessment, but it provides national level analysis.

(Last updated in April 2026)

Format: Graph for each of the indicator

Update frequency: Unstated (Unclear)

Notes: The most comprehensive tracker assessing progress against the KMGBF targets and goals

Targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Note that so far only the following targets have available data:

• Target 3 (30 x 30 for conservation)
• Target 4 (Halting species extinction)
• Target 5 (The use, harvesting and trade of wild species)
• Target 18 (Subsidies repurposing)
• Target 19 (Financial mobilisation)

Progress (As of July 2026)

Target 3 (30 x 30 for conservation): Trend towards target

• There is only one indicator on the coverage of protected areas and OECMs, which has a trend towards the target.
• Terrestrial and inland waters coverage: 17.61% in 2025.
• Marine and coastal areas coverage: 9.85% in 2025.

Target 4 (Halting species extinction)

• Indicator 1 on Red List Index: Trend away from target (0.72 in 2024).
• Indicator 2 on the proportion of populations within species with an effective population size > 500 has no available data.

Target 5 (The use, harvesting and trade of wild species): Trend away from target

• There is only one indicator on the proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels, which has a trend away from the target (62.33% in 2021).

Target 18 (Subsidies repurposing)

• Indicator 1 on positive incentives and policy instruments: Trend towards target (886 policy instruments in 2025).
• Indicator 2 on value of subsidies repurposed has no available data.

Target 19 (Financial mobilisation):

• Indicator 1 on international public funding: Trend towards target (9,199.37 Million (USD) in 2022).
• Indicator 2 on domestic public funding and Indicator 3 on private funding have no available data.

Format: Map, accompanied by downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Monthly

Notes: The most up-to-date progress for Target 3 of KMGBF, alongside a map showing the coverage of all protected areas across the world

Global Progress (Last updated in July 2026)

• Terrestrial and inland waters protected area & OECM coverage: 18.42%.
• Marine protected area & OECM coverage: 10.01%.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Evaluating the coverage of oceans protected, and the wider policy challenges and opportunities for ocean conservation

Target 3 (30 x 30) in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

The target of 30 x 30 for oceans in the Ocean Conservation Pledge

Progress of Ocean Protection and Conservation (Last updated in June 2025)

• Only 8.3% of global marine areas are reported as protected.
• At the current rate of progress — an increase of 0.5% since the adoption of the GBF in 2022 — this figure is projected to rise to just 9.7% by 2030.

Format: An index, accompanied by a report, interactive graphs, and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Biennially, in October

Notes: Compiling monitored population data from almost 35,000 species, to measure the trend of global biodiversity

Progress of Living Planet Index (2024)

• Overall progress: Over the past 50 years (1970–2020), the average size of monitored wildlife populations has shrunk by 73%.
• Key areas: Freshwater populations have suffered the heaviest declines, falling by 85%, followed by terrestrial (69%) and marine populations (56%).
• Regional difference: At a regional level, the fastest declines have been seen in Latin America and the Caribbean – a concerning 95% decline – followed by Africa (76%) and the Asia and the Pacific (60%).

Format: Map dashboards for each of the key figure

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Official UN figures

Overall Progress (Last updated based on the data received in 2021)

• 15.4 % of the reported land is degraded, an increase of 4 % in four years.
• 98 countries are affected by drought, including 15 which have experienced severe or extreme drought .
• International finance related to land degradation of 4.93 billion USD provided in 2016-2019 .
• 1.84 billion people are drought stricken, including 4.37% who are exposed to severe or extreme drought.

Format: Report, accompanied by dashboards of variable formats

Update frequency: Annually, in October

Notes: Using a similar dataset with WRI Deforestation and Restoration Targets Tracker, comprehensively assessing the annual trends and gaps for country-level deforestation, degradation, and restoration, and providing an in-depth analysis of causes and solutions

• The 2023 Global Stocktake decision
• The relevant target under the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use
• The relevant target under the New York Declaration on Forests

Overall Progress (2025)

• End Deforestation: Global deforestation in 2024: 8.1 Mha (63% higher than the trajectory needed to halt deforestation by 2030).
• End Degradation: Forest degradation in 2024: 8.8 Mha.
• Restoration: Restoration efforts are expanding, with at least 10.6 million hectares hosting forest restoration projects worldwide.
• Others: Harmful subsidies outweighing green subsidies by over 200:1.

Note: This is an assessment parallel to the WRI Deforestation and Restoration Targets Tracker, with slightly different results due to different methodologies.

Format: Line graphs

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Using a similar dataset with Forest Declaration Assessment, and it aims at providing an early assessment of progress as soon as data becomes available

Ending Deforestation

• The 2023 Global Stocktake decision
• The relevant target under the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use
• The relevant target under the New York Declaration on Forests

Restoring 350 Mha of Degraded Landscapes

• The relevant target under the New York Declaration on Forests
• Bonn Challenge
• The relevant target under the Sharm el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda
• The relevant target under the Climate Champions 2030 Breakthroughs

Progress (Last updated in April 2026)

End Deforestation

• The global deforestation rate in 2025 was 17% lower than the baseline from 2018-2020, but 70% higher than the rate needed to achieve zero-deforestation by 2030.

350 Mha restoration

• Between 2000 and 2020, the world gained 130 Mha of tree cover, which is a 3% increase over the 2000 baseline.
• This represents an average rate of 6.5 Mha of tree cover gained per year. However, this is off track from meeting the target, which would need increasing tree cover by an additional 220 Mha, or nearly 22 Mha per year, between 2021 and 2030.

Note: This is an assessment parallel to the Forest Declaration Assessment, with slightly different results due to different methodologies.

Format: Dashboards

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Official tracker for Bonn Challenge, only accessible by registered governments.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in December

Notes: Tracking both domestic and international investment in Nature-based Solutions, and a specific figure for restoration

Overall Progress (2026)

• There is a total of US$ 7.3 trillion nature-negative finance flows, including US$ 4.9 trillion from private sources, and US$ 2.4 trillion from public environmentally harmful subsidies to fossil fuels, agriculture, water, transport and construction.
• There is a total of US$ 220 billion in NbS finance flows, with close to 90% coming from public sources. NbS investments need to grow 2.5 times to US$ 571 billion per year by 2030. This constitutes just 0.5% of global GDP (in 2024).
• Harmful investments outpace nature protection by 30 to 1.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in October and/or November

Notes: Official UN report on current and projected emissions, according to submitted NDCs. A full report will usually be published before the climate COP, and there could be update(s) throughout / after COP if there are new NDCs submitted

Overall Progress (2025)

• Total global GHG emissions in 2035 are projected to be around 12% below 2019 level.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in October / November

Notes: Official UN report on current and projected emissions, according to submitted NDCs. Typically launched after the UNFCCC Synthesis Report. Using the same set of data and have a consistent result with the Synthesis report but comes with more detailed policy analyses and data visualisations

Overall Progress (2025)

The following different scenarios limits warming to (66% chance):

• Current policies continuing: 2.8 °C.
• Unconditional NDCs continuing: 2.5 °C.
• Conditional NDCs continuing: 2.3 °C.
• Conditional NDCs continuing + all net-zero pledges: 1.9 °C.

Format: Headline temperatures, accompanied by briefings

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Different methodologies from the UNEP Emissions Gap Report, and usually including more recent policy developments than UNEP Emissions Gap Report

Overall Progress (Last updated in November 2025)

The following different scenarios limits warming to (50% chance):

• Policies and actions: 2.6 °C.
• 2030 and 2035 targets only (submitted NDC): 2.6 °C.
• Pledges & targets (NDC and submitted long-term targets): 2.2 °C.

Optimistic scenario (all announced targets): 1.9 °C.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Ongoing, in accordance with the NDC submission cycle every 5 years

Notes: Illustrating which country has / has not submitted their NDC

Submission Progress (As of July 2026)

• 144 countries have submitted their latest NDC.

Format: Country rating

Update frequency: Each NDC round

Notes: Rating how well each country’s NDC is, from various perspective including mitigation, adaptation, finance, fostering system change, inclusiveness, contributing to sustainable development and tracking

NA - Does not provide an overall progress assessment, but it provides national level analysis.

(The latest one is 2021 NDC. No published analyses on NDC 3.0.)

Format: Global headline figures of NDC submission against the 1.5°C gap, and in-depth assessments for each country based on their NDC ambition and real-life policies

Update frequency: Unstated, likely when key NDCs are updated / new version submitted

Notes: Assessing each country’s NDC ambition and real-life policies against modelled domestic 1.5°C pathways. Focusing more on the 1.5°C gap and each individual country’s contribution to it

Overall Progress (Last updated in June 2026)

• Among the submitted NDCs (as of the cut-off date), only 3 are 1.5C compatible NDCs.

By-country assessment: Detailed explanations available for key countries.

Format: Global headline figures of NDC submission against each country’s GHG emissions amount, and assessments for each country based on their GHG emissions reduction target

Update frequency: Unstated, likely very frequently

Notes: Assessing each NDC’s ambition against their previous NDC submissions, around key components related to the headline GHG emissions reduction target. Focusing more on the existing GHG share of a country, and its headline GHG emissions reduction target

Overall Progress (Last updated in July 2026)

• 144 countries have submitted a 2035 NDC target as per their cut-off day, covering 75% of the world’s total GHG emissions.
• New unconditional and conditional NDCs will lead to a 1.6 and 2.4 GtCO2e emissions reduction by 2035 respectively.

By-country assessment: Headline explanations available for submitted countries.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in October

Notes: Providing latest forecasts and analysis, based on recent policy and market developments in the renewable sector

Overall progress (2025)

• Global renewable power capacity is expected to double between now and 2030.
• Solar PV accounts for almost 80% of the global increase, followed by wind, hydropower, bioenergy and geothermal.

Format: Dashboards of variable formats

Update frequency: “Ad-hoc”

Notes: Clear visualisation to compare 2030 renewable energy targets of each country, on top of a global renewable capacity trajectory

Overall progress

• Current trajectory points to 7793 GW renewables in 2030, compared to the tripling target of 11,000 GW.

(Unclear last update)

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, in November

Notes: Forecasting energy efficiency to 2030, with key policy challenges and opportunities

Overall Progress (2025)

• Global energy efficiency progress is set to improve by 1.8% in 2025, up from around 1% in 2024.
• The is off track to the 2030 target. The global energy efficiency progress, measured by the rate of change in primary energy intensity, has fallen to 1.3% per year on average since 2019, well below the COP28 target of a 4% annual improvement by 2030.

Format: Chart

Update frequency: Unstated, likely after the submission of new / updated key NDCs

Notes: Monitoring how countries reflect the energy transition outcomes in their respective NDC, on whether the country has reflected their ambition to deliver these targets in their NDC, and whether the country has set up its own national targets in the NDC

Overall Progress (Last updated in April 2026)

• 80% of submitted NDCs either have no fossil fuels in their electricity mix or commit to reducing fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix by 2035.
• 54% of submitted NDCs include a quantified target for reducing fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix by 2035.
• 81% of submitted NDCs either have no coal in their energy mix, or reference intentions to phase down unabated coal power. Over half (56%) of countries with coal in their electricity mix include plans to phase down coal in the power sector.

Format: Report, accompanied by a data explore and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, approximately from February to May

Notes: Based on satellite and measurement data, tracking the historical trend of methane emissions, from different regions and sectors

Overall Progress (2026)

• There is still no sign that methane emissions from fossil fuel operations are falling.
• It is estimated that methane emissions from these activities total 124 million tonnes (Mt) a year: oil is the largest source at 45 Mt, followed by coal at 43 Mt, and natural gas at 36 Mt. A further 20 Mt comes from bioenergy production and consumption, largely from the incomplete combustion of traditional biomass used for cooking and heating in developing economies.
• Satellite and inventory data is improving.

Format: Report, accompanied by downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, approximately in October

Notes: Based on multiple datasets and national inventories submitted to the UNFCCC, tracking the cumulative emissions of key countries

Overall Progress (2025)

• Global methane emissions have continued to rise, reaching an average of 345 Mt CH4 in 2022 and putting the world on a dangerous path compatible with 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century.
• Agriculture is consistently the largest source of global anthropogenic methane emissions, followed by the energy and waste sectors, with waste being the fastest growing.

Format: Report

Update frequency: Annually, around June

Notes: Tracking the overall progress on the seven sectors related to the Breakthrough Agenda

Overall Progress (2026)

Hydrogen

• Global deployment of low-emissions hydrogen continues to grow, albeit from a very low base. In 2025, production is estimated to have reached close to 1 Mt, accounting for less than 1% of total hydrogen supply.

Road Transport

• Sales of electric cars increased by more than 20% in 2025 to around 21 million, and are expected to rise again in 2026 and account for 28% of all cars sold worldwide.
• Progress in medium- and heavy-duty vehicles is more uneven.

Steel

• At the end of 2025, the global project pipeline for near-zero emissions and near-zero emissions capable steel reached around 115 Mt of planned capacity, roughly 5% of today’s production.

Cement and concrete

• By the end of 2025, announced capacity for near‑zero‑emissions cement stood at around 55 Mt, with only about 20 Mt having reached relatively advanced development stages, equivalent to roughly 1% of global capacity.

Buildings

• Fewer than 10% of the global building stock currently meets net-zero standards, and around 100 countries still lack mandatory building energy codes altogether.

Format: Report, accompanied by a data explore and downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Annually, in September

Notes: Providing an update on hydrogen production and demand worldwide

Overall Progress (2026)

• Low-emissions hydrogen production grew by 20% in 2025 to reach almost 1 Mt, but progress is concentrated in a small number of projects. Low-emissions hydrogen production is expected to see another record year in 2026 and reach more than 1% of global production for the first time.
• The pipeline of announced projects for low-emissions hydrogen production has shrunk to 27 Mt by 2030, mostly due to delays post 2030 and cancellations.

Format: Graphs, accompanied by downloadable raw data

Update frequency: Unstated

Notes: Providing the historical trend of % share of electricity

Overall Progress (Last updated in April 2026)

• Electricity as a share of primary energy has increased from 12.7% to 19.8% from 1985 to 2024, seeing a steady rate of increase.

Format: Report, accompanied by policy explorer

Update frequency: Annually, in April or May

Notes: Providing trends in electric car markets and other relevant systems, e.g. charging, batteries

Overall Progress (2026)

• Electric car sales grew by 20% globally to exceed 20 million in 2025, meaning one-quarter of all new cars sold were electric.
• Global electric car sales are expected to grow to 23 million in 2026, representing 28% of total car sales.