Document summary
A new approach to the impact of mandates and emissions targets on global carbon abatement potential is presented, with a time-series to show the impact of targets in four time points from the starting base of 2008. These are: October 2009 (pre-Copenhagen), March 2010 (post-Copenhagen), January 2011 and February 2012. In effect these time-series present snapshots in time of the global political landscape around climate and renewables policy.