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Net zero targets of national governments: target year and status

For each national government in the Net Zero Tracker, the year by which it aims to reach net zero emissions (or carbon or climate neutrality), and how firm the target is: written into law, set out in a policy document, declared or pledged, proposed or under discussion, or already achieved by the government's own account. Governments whose end target is not net zero, or that have no target, are shown without a year.

Latest value

2,050

198 national governments and self-governing territories in the Net Zero Tracker, including the European Union, 17 September 2025. Version Net Zero Stocktake 2025 (Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143240, 17 September 2025).

Net zero targets of national governments: target year and status (target year)

1 values from 17 September 2025 to 17 September 2025.

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Net zero targets of national governments: target year and status, every value
Period	Status of the target	Value ()	Status
2025-09-17	In law	2,050	final

Net Zero Tracker. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Data-Driven EnviroLab, NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero. Net Zero Stocktake 2025 dataset (Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143240). CC BY-NC 4.0. CC BY-NC 4.0 (Net Zero Tracker data terms; the Zenodo record says CC BY 4.0).

Notes on individual values

Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2015.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2024.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2040, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2040, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2060, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2018.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'No target', no status given.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2024.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2035, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon negative', for 2050, status 'Achieved (self-declared)', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2016.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2060, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Other', for 2050, status 'In policy document'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2024.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In policy document'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net negative', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2015.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2035, status 'Declaration / pledge'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Other', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2018.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2035, status 'In law', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2025, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'Achieved (self-declared)', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'GHG neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2060, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In law', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Achieved (self-declared)', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2070, status 'In law', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2040, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Climate neutral', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2060, status 'In law', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2035, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2024.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2060, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2024.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Absolute emissions target', for 2035, status 'In law', status last updated 2025.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2035, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2030, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2070, status 'Proposed / in discussion', status last updated 2020.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2060, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2045, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Proposed / in discussion'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In law', status last updated 2015.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2040, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2060, status 'In law', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Absolute emissions target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2015.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'Achieved (self-declared)', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2045, status 'In law', status last updated 2018.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, no status given, status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2065, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2023.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Emissions reduction target', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2018.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2053, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2050, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2019.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2030, status 'In policy document', status last updated 2022.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Carbon neutral(ity)', for 2050, status 'Declaration / pledge', status last updated 2021.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Net zero', for 2030, status 'Proposed / in discussion'.
Net Zero Tracker: end target 'Reduction v. BAU', for 2030, status 'In policy document'.

Where it comes from

Producer: Net Zero Tracker (Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Data-Driven EnviroLab, NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero) · Net Zero Stocktake 2025 dataset
Version: Net Zero Stocktake 2025 (Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143240, 17 September 2025)
File: https://zenodo.org/api/records/17143240/files/Data_finalised_for_Zenodo_16_09(Sheet1).csv/content
Fetched: 2026-10-08 (automatically), 8,534,432 bytes
Fingerprint: sha256 fd2471cfb041c02e24f09291edaa2d77c5367edcb16f2123994d1be0b31bd54b
Copies: No Wayback copy recorded yet.
Cite the producer: Net Zero Tracker. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Data-Driven EnviroLab, NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero. 2026. Dataset: Tatlow, H., Manya, D. and Siu, D. (2025), Net Zero Stocktake 2025, Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17143240

What was done to it

Read Data_finalised_for_Zenodo_16_09(Sheet1).csv from Zenodo record 17143240 (fetched 2026-10-08, sha256 fd2471cfb041…), as cp1252 text, and checked that its md5 is the 68515520c574f51bf5d69af4d493ca57 Zenodo lists.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/net_zero_tracker.py · code sha256 049d7ac4b59c6ac7… · inputs fd2471cfb041…
Kept the 198 rows with Entity_type 'Country' (the European Union, EUU, is published as EU27) and only their target columns; the GDP, population and emissions context columns were not read.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/net_zero_tracker.py · code sha256 049d7ac4b59c6ac7… · inputs fd2471cfb041…
Took the Tracker's own classification: data_is_nzt marks a net zero or similar end target (net zero, zero emissions, zero carbon, climate neutral, climate positive, carbon neutral(ity), GHG neutral(ity), carbon negative, net negative), data_NonNZ_EndTarget another kind of end target, and 'No target at all' none; the build checks that each flag agrees with the End_target label.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/net_zero_tracker.py · code sha256 049d7ac4b59c6ac7… · inputs fd2471cfb041…
Published, for each country, the year of its net zero target with the Tracker's status label as a dimension, and for countries without one a missing value with the Tracker's end target as the reason. Each value keeps the Tracker's labels (end target, year, status, year of the last status update) as its note.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/net_zero_tracker.py · code sha256 049d7ac4b59c6ac7… · inputs fd2471cfb041…

What it covers

Geography: 198 national governments and self-governing territories in the Net Zero Tracker, including the European Union
Basis: Targets as coded by the Net Zero Tracker from public documents for its Net Zero Stocktake 2025 (deposited 17 September 2025). 'Net zero' includes the Tracker's similar target names (carbon neutrality, climate neutrality, net negative and others). The status is the Tracker's: in law, in a policy document, a declaration or pledge, proposed or in discussion, or achieved by the government's own account.
Unit: target year ()

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Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Net Zero Tracker data terms; the Zenodo record says CC BY 4.0) (free to reuse with credit, non-commercially). Credit: Net Zero Tracker. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Data-Driven EnviroLab, NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero. Net Zero Stocktake 2025 dataset (Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143240). CC BY-NC 4.0.

Net Zero Tracker data are shared under CC BY-NC 4.0, for non-commercial use only; the Tracker's Zenodo deposit labels the same file CC BY 4.0, and the stricter terms are followed until the Tracker confirms which applies.

How to cite

Net Zero Tracker. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Data-Driven EnviroLab, NewClimate Institute, Oxford Net Zero. 2026. Dataset: Tatlow, H., Manya, D. and Siu, D. (2025), Net Zero Stocktake 2025, Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17143240 Via Environment Dashboard, https://environmentdashboard.org/data/net-zero/nzt-2025/target-by-country (version Net Zero Stocktake 2025 (Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143240, 17 September 2025), data accessed 2026-10-08).

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