National & City-Level Emissions & Climate Target Data in Support of Jaden L. Phillips' MES Thesis

This dataset contains country & city-level climate data in support of Jaden L. Phillips' Master of Environment & Sustainability (MES) thesis. The dataset includes two separate spreadsheets.

The first spreadsheet pertains to the 194 countries that signed the Paris Agreement, including (1) GHG emissions data from 1975 to 2023, obtained from the 2024 Global Carbon Budget and (2) Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target information.

The second spreadsheet pertains to cities, including (1) the 97 cities in the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group's participation in the High-Impact Accelerators, and (2) the absolute GHG emissions & populations of 11,422 urban centres from the Urban Centre Database for the years 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2022.