Tracking Progress: Independent Monitoring of Climate Policy in Asia

​As countries across Asia strengthen their climate commitments, attention is increasingly shifting from what governments have pledged to what is actually being implemented. Understanding this gap requires credible, independent monitoring of climate policies, their implementation, and their real-world impact.

​A growing range of initiatives is helping make this possible. The Climate Policy Lab at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, for example, has developed National Climate Policy Inventories covering major emitters including China, India, Indonesia, and Türkiye. Other initiatives, including Climate Change Laws of the World, provide tools for tracking climate legislation and policy across countries.

​Join us at the Asia Climate Solutions Pavilion for a conversation on how independent monitoring can help turn climate commitments into implementation. Bringing together international research institutions, think tanks, and country-level experts, the session will explore lessons from existing climate policy tracking efforts, examine implementation experiences across Asia and beyond, and discuss how independent evidence can strengthen accountability and inform future climate policy.

​Together, speakers will consider what makes monitoring credible and influential, where the biggest gaps between ambition and implementation remain, and how better evidence can support stronger NDCs and accelerate climate action toward 2030.