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Supplementary information to: Emissions are still rising: ramp up the cuts (Comment in 564, 27–30; 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07585-6

Christiana Figueres, Corinne Le Quéré, Anand Mahindra, Oliver Bäte, Gail Whiteman, Glen Peters, Dabo Guan

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Christiana Figueres, Convenor of Mission 2020, Former Executive Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Offier, World Resources Secretary of the UNFCCC & Vice-Chair of Global Covenant of Mayors; Institute, 10 G Street, NE Suite 800. Washington, DC 20002 United [email protected] States; [email protected]

Corinne Le Quéré, Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Angel Hsu, Director Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions; Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Yale-NUS College; Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Norwich, UK, NR4 7TJ; [email protected] 195 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511, USA; [email protected]

Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group, Gateway Building, Anthony Hobley, Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Tracker Initiative, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, India 40 Bermondsey St., London; [email protected]

Oliver Bäte, Chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, Anu Ramaswami, Charles M. Denny Jr. Chair, Professor of Science Königinstraße 28, 80802 München, Germany Technology & Environmental Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; [email protected] Gail Whiteman, Professor & Director, Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, Aron Cramer, President and Chief Executive Officer, BSR, 88 Kearny LA1 1YX, UK; [email protected] Street, 12th floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA; [email protected]

Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate Arvind Kumar, Founder & Managing Trustee at Lung Care Research, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway; glen.peters@cicero. Foundation; Chairman, Centre for Chest Surgery at Sir Ganga Ram oslo.no Hospital, New Delhi; [email protected]

Dabo Guan, Chair Professor in Climate Change Economics at School Barbara Buchner, Executive Director, Climate Finance Program, of International Development, University of East Anglia Norwich, UK, Climate Policy Initiative, 235 Montgomery Street, 13th Floor, San NR4 7TJ; Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, ; Francisco, CA 94104; [email protected] [email protected] Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Co-signatories: Murdoch University School of Engineering, Perth, Western Australia; Visiting Scientist Earth System Department, Achala C. Abeysinghe Principal Researcher, Climate Change; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Team Leader, Global Climate Change Governance, International [email protected] Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 80-86 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8NH, UK; [email protected] Caio Koch-Weser, Chairman of Board, European Climate Foundation, Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin, Germany; Ajay Mathur, Director General, , TERI - The Energy and Resources [email protected] Institute, New Delhi, Delhi, India ·[email protected] Charlotte Pera, President & Chief Executive Officer, ClimateWorks Amanda Eichel, Executive Director, Global Covenant of Mayors, Foundation, 235 Montgomery St. Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94104; Brussels, Belgium; [email protected] [email protected]

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Andrew Higham, Chief Executive Officer, Mission 2020, co/o New Eduardo Paes, Former Mayor of Rio de Janeiro and former Chair of Venture Find, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW #300, Washington, DC 20036; C40, Willard Avenue 4440Ap 1213 Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA; [email protected] [email protected]

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Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center, Ma Jun, Director, Center for Finance and Development, Tsinghua

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