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Progress of the shifts needed for 1.5 °C (Systems Change Lab)

Of the outcome indicators Systems Change Lab tracks across power, buildings, industry, transport, cities, land, food, freshwater, the circular economy, carbon removal and finance, the share it assesses as on track for 2030, off track, well off track, heading in the right direction but too slowly, heading in the wrong direction, or with too little data to say. Indicators built from International Energy Agency data are left out.

Latest value

0.6%

World (Systems Change Lab's global indicators), 5 October 2026. Version export retrieved 2026-10-05.

Progress of the shifts needed for 1.5 °C (Systems Change Lab) (percent of Systems Change Lab outcome indicators)

6 values from 5 October 2026 to 5 October 2026. Lines: On track, Off track, Well off track, Heading in the right direction, Heading in the wrong direction.
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Progress of the shifts needed for 1.5 °C (Systems Change Lab), every value
PeriodProgress statusValue (%)Status
2026-10-05On track0.6final
2026-10-05Off track3.9final
2026-10-05Well off track20.7final
2026-10-05Heading in the right direction15.6final
2026-10-05Heading in the wrong direction30.2final
2026-10-05Insufficient data to assess29.1final
Calculated by Environment Dashboard from Systems Change Lab data. Systems Change Lab. 2025. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, Bezos Earth Fund. https://www.systemschangelab.org, accessed 2026-10-05. CC BY 4.0. Changes: indicators counted by progress status and expressed as percent of the outcome indicators not built from IEA data. CC BY 4.0 (Systems Change Lab's own data; third-party data keep their licences, IEA data excluded).

Notes on individual values

  • 1 of 179 outcome indicators: FIN-1.
  • 7 of 179 outcome indicators: FA-100, FA-4, FA-98, FIN-22, FIN-87, P-FA-8, X-FIN-23.
  • 37 of 179 outcome indicators: CE-2, CE-39, CR-1, CTY-16, CTY-22, CTY-3, CTY-55, FA-101, FA-53, FA-54, FA-76, FA-84, FA-95, FA-99, FIN-40, FIN-41, FW-188, FW-47, FW-48, NE-14, NE-15, P-FA-85, PWR-11, PWR-12, PWR-18, PWR-49, PWR-7, PWR-8, TRNS-13, TRNS-39, TRNS-40, X-CTY-14, X-FA-28, X-FIN-9, X-LND-42, X-TRNS-20, X-TRNS-21.
  • 28 of 179 outcome indicators: CE-26, CE-51, CE-9, CTY-10, CTY-11, CTY-49, FA-32, FIN-67, FW-175, FW-79, FW-80, GOV-10, GOV-12, GOV-14, GOV-26, GOV-33, GOV-5, GOV-53, GOV-54, GOV-56, P-GOV-35, PWR-19, PWR-20, PWR-21, X-LND-43, X-NE-12, XP-FA-11, XP-FA-13.
  • 54 of 179 outcome indicators: CE-1, CE-18, CE-19, CE-20, CE-3, CE-50, CTY-4, CTY-5, FA-104, FA-105, FA-2, FA-66, FA-96, FIN-77, FW-49, FW-54, FW-74, GOV-1, GOV-13, GOV-15, GOV-17, GOV-18, GOV-2, GOV-21, GOV-23, GOV-3, GOV-34, GOV-42, GOV-43, GOV-44, GOV-46, GOV-47, GOV-48, GOV-57, GOV-7, IN-1, IN-21, IN-35, IN-36, NE-16, P-FA-12, TRNS-15, X-CE-50, X-FIN-66, X-FW-150, X-FW-174, X-FW-180, X-GOV-16, X-IN-34, X-LND-7, X-PWR-13, XP-FA-10, XP-FA-51, XP-LND-6.
  • 52 of 179 outcome indicators: BLDG-1, CE-27, CE-33, CE-38, CE-41, CE-42, CE-52, CE-61, CE-62, CE-63, CE-64, CE-65, CE-69, CE-8, CTY-27, CTY-31, FA-14, FA-18, FA-36, FA-67, FA-7, FA-94, FIN-2, FW-1, FW-102, FW-154, FW-187, FW-3, FW-5, FW-72, FW-81, GOV-24, GOV-25, GOV-30, GOV-38, IN-8, NE-10, NE-11, NE-13, PWR-43, PWR-44, PWR-45, X-BLDG-41, X-CE-67, X-CTY-47, X-FIN-11, X-FIN-12, X-FIN-25, X-LND-109, X-NE-36, XP-FW-2, XP-LND-41.

Where it comes from

Producer
Systems Change Lab (World Resources Institute and Bezos Earth Fund) · Systems Change Lab: indicators of progress on the shifts needed for 1.5 °C
Version
export retrieved 2026-10-05
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https://systemschangelab.org/scl-download/all
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2026-10-05 (automatically), 2,924,272 bytes
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sha256 1c4ed351ea59b67a3b2878c6b7ac9952d83c4993f7eed89c408437232835e568 · Last-Modified Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:33:48 GMT
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Cite the producer
Systems Change Lab. 2025. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, Bezos Earth Fund. Available online at: https://www.systemschangelab.org.

What was done to it

  1. Read the 438 indicator metadata files in the Systems Change Lab export (sha256 1c4ed351ea59…, retrieved 2026-10-05); 196 are outcome indicators with a progress status, the rest enablers and barriers, which have none.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/systems_change_lab.py · code sha256 3d70736c6d596bf0… · inputs 1c4ed351ea59…

  2. Left out the 17 outcome indicators whose data sources name the International Energy Agency (BLDG-11, BLDG-15, BLDG-24, BLDG-25, BLDG-37, CTY-21, FIN-86, IN-2, PWR-41, PWR-42, PWR-50, PWR-58, TRNS-27, TRNS-28, TRNS-29, TRNS-31, X-FIN-85).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/systems_change_lab.py · code sha256 3d70736c6d596bf0… · inputs 1c4ed351ea59…

  3. Counted the remaining 179 outcome indicators by Systems Change Lab's status and divided each count by their total, times 100.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/systems_change_lab.py · code sha256 3d70736c6d596bf0… · inputs 1c4ed351ea59…

What it covers

Geography
World (Systems Change Lab's global indicators)
Basis
Systems Change Lab's own progress status for each outcome indicator, as listed in its data export on the day it was downloaded; enabler and barrier indicators carry no status and are not counted.
Unit
percent of Systems Change Lab outcome indicators (%)