Share Scientists propose a new method for assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement’s climate goal – limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to achieve 1.5 OC above preindustrial levels. The research was led by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and published in Nature Climate Change. Inconsistencies between the land use CO2 estimates of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and those of the global models can lead to inaccuracies in such assessment. The study reconciles the different land-use GHG estimates by translatingthe results of global models into figures comparable to countriesGHG inventories. The findings of the study are relevant for the global carbon modelling community (including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change- IPCC) and for the Global Stocktake (the periodic assessment of collective climate progress starting in 2022 under the Paris Agreement)