Few countries achieve the Paris climate goals. Here are those who are.

This week, a high-profile scientific body that studies climate change has released a terrifying report. The world only has a decade to take "unprecedented" measures to reduce carbon emissions and keep global warming at a moderate level – but still dangerous and disruptive. This would require a "rapid and profound" transformation of the global economy, of such magnitude and magnitude that it has no historical equivalent.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that almost all countries will need to significantly scale up the commitments made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement if people hope to avoid disasters. Under the agreement, 195 countries committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to less than two degrees Celsius.

But it is hard to imagine that this will happen, as almost no country is doing well enough to achieve the relatively modest goals. (The United States was a signatory to the 2015 Paris agreement, but last year, President Trump announced that Washington was withdrawing from the pact.)

Climate Action Tracker, a project led by a group of three climate research organizations, tracks the progress of 32 countries in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Taken together, these 32 countries account for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The aim of the tracker is to provide an "updated assessment of individual country reduction targets and an overview of their combined effects". It examines the amount of greenhouse gases that each country currently emits; what he's committed to change on paper; and to what extent he keeps his promises.

As the graph below shows, the group found that most major polluters made little or no effort to achieve their goals. According to Climate Action's calculations, the "critically underdeveloped countries" have not even made the commitment to significantly reduce paper emissions. Only seven countries have made commitments or made efforts to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement.

A Climate Action Tracker chart shows the efforts of the world's largest greenhouse gas producers to reduce these emissions in line with the Paris climate agreement.

But there are bright spots:

Morocco

Gambia

The West African nation is the only other country on the right track to reduce its carbon production in parallel with an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius. According to Climate Action Tracker, it is one of the only developing countries in the world to have developed a plan that would "unreasonably reduce its emissions." One of the major components of this plan is a massive reforestation project aimed at halting environmental erosion and degradation by planting trees.

India

One of the world's largest economies, with one of the fastest growing renewable energy programs, could achieve its goal of generating 40% of its energy from non-fuel energy sources fossils by the end of the year. That's what he did by refusing to open new coal-fired power plants and promoting electric vehicles.

Britain

Like most industrialized countries, the UK is struggling to reduce its emissions. But the nation deserves special mention as the only developed economy in the world to have created a body to verify how well the country is meeting the commitments made under the Paris agreement and how it could do better. Britain is also working on an ambitious plan to reduce its emissions to zero net by 2050.

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