Media pack For release 25 August 2026

Perigon’s Low-Carbon Transition Index · Edition One

Moving the right way.
Not fast enough.

Data

To year-end 2024

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The finding

Perigon’s Low-Carbon Transition Index finds a largely positive direction of travel across key energy-related and enabler indicators in 2024. Speed is the problem: ten of the fourteen indicators are improving, yet only four are improving fast enough to meet even existing policy commitments, let alone net zero.

The scorecard

Indicator	Direction of travel	Stated Policies	Net Zero
Real-economy: energy-related
Energy generation	Improving	60	60
Energy storage	Improving	100	100
Transport	Improving	60	60
Buildings	Improving	100	80
Industry	Improving	100	60
Energy intensity	Improving	60	60
Low-carbon fuels	Deteriorating	73	33
Real-economy: non-energy-related
Deforestation	Improving	60	60
Dietary change	Deteriorating	33	33
Reforestation	Deteriorating	33	33
Carbon capture	Deteriorating	33	33
Transition enablers
Commitments	Improving	80	80
Investment	Improving	60	60
Carbon pricing	Improving	60	60

Real-economy transition progress · 11	64.8	55.8
Transition enablers · 3	66.7	66.7
LCTI total · 14	65.2	58.1

Above 75 on track, 50 to 75 below the required pace, below 50 off track. Totals are the unweighted mean of members. Perigon Partners analysis, December 2025.

“The question is no longer whether the transition is happening. It is. Ten of our fourteen indicators moved the right way this year. The question now is pace. Only four indicators are moving fast enough to deliver current policy; only three are fast enough for a balanced pathway to 2050 net zero.”

For editors

What it measures.

The method, briefly

Each indicator gets two scores. Direction of travel (40% of that metric’s overall score) asks whether the metric improved on the previous year. Pace, weighted more heavily at 60%, asks whether that year’s rate of change is fast enough to reach the 2035 benchmark. So an indicator can be improving and still fall short. Six of the ten that improved are not moving fast enough. Total progress scores are an unweighted mean of all indicators.

The two pathways

Stated Policies is the carbon reduction pathway implied by the policies governments have actually adopted. Net Zero is the pathway to net zero by 2050 that results in limited overshoot of a 1.5°C temperature rise this century.

Where the benchmarks come from

Eight of the fourteen indicators are benchmarked against the IEA World Energy Outlook 2025 scenarios. The other six use the most credible published reference available for each: the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration, NGFS scenarios, SBTi criteria, the IEA investment requirement, and for dietary change a UK Climate Change Committee recommendation rescaled to a global baseline (as no global pathway currently exists). For four indicators (deforestation, dietary change, reforestation, and commitments), there is no available distinction between the two pathways so scores are consistent across stated policies and net zero.

Something you can only do here

Ask the Index a question and get a cited answer.

It answers from the Index and nothing else, and returns the sources alongside the answer, so what it tells you is quotable and traceable.

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Assets and reuse

Licence

Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Reproduce the scorecard, charts and figures, including commercially, provided Perigon Partners and any underlying third-party source are credited. No permission request needed.

Charts on request

Print-resolution files from media@perigonpartners.co.uk: the scorecard, also as CSV, global investment in the energy transition, and low-carbon share by sector.

How to cite

Perigon Partners (2026). The Low-Carbon Transition Index [Data set and report]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22094542

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