## [State of Climate Action: Advancing Sectoral Decarbonization](/events/state-climate-action-advancing-sectoral-decarbonization)

This event covered the latest findings on the recently published [*State of Climate Action 2023*](https://systemschangelab.org/publication/state-climate-action-2023), which offers a roadmap that the world can follow to avoid increasingly dangerous and irreversible climate impacts, while minimizing harms to biodiversity and food security. It translates the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature limit into 2030 and 2050 targets across sectors that account for roughly 85% of global GHG emissions— power, buildings, industry, transport, forests and land, food and agriculture — as well as those focused on the scale-up of technological carbon removal and climate finance. The report then assesses collective global progress and highlights where action must urgently accelerate this decade to limit warming to 1.5°C.

The findings of the report was followed by a panel discussion on how the findings resonate at a country level and relate to closing the implementation and ambition gaps.

 ![Rachel Jetel at COP28](/sites/default/files/2023-12/Image%20%282%29.jpg)

 

*Rachel Jetel, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute, presenting at the Regional Climate Foundations stage at COP28.* ![Kelly Levin presenting at COP28](/sites/default/files/2023-12/Image%20%283%29.jpg)

 

*Kelly Levin, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, the Bezos Earth Fund ,presenting at the Regional Climate Foundations stage at COP28.*

**Moderator:**

- Rachel Jetel, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute

**Participants:**

- Kelly Levin, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, the Bezos Earth Fund
- Josefina Cobián, Program Manager, Global Intelligence, ClimateWorks Foundation
- Claire Fyson, Co-Head of the Climate Policy Team, Climate Analytics
- Joe Thwaites, Senior Advocate, International Climate FInance, NRDC
- Katie Lebling, Research Associate, Carbon Removal and Industrial Decarbonization, World Resources Institute
- Adrian Fernandez, President, Iniciativa Climática de México
- Cintya Feitosa, International Relations Advisor, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)
- Crispin Olver, Executive Director, South Africa Presidential Climate Commission