This dataset was developed by Aksornchan Chaianong and Puru Malhotra (Sustainability Transition Policy Group, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) from 2024 to February 2025. Aksornchan Chaianong led the work, which was supported by Ioannis Milioritsas, Silvia Weko, and Johan Lilliestam (Sustainability Transition Policy Group, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). The data is published with CC BY-SA 4.0. Please cite it as: Chaianong, A., Malhotra P., Milioritsas, I., Weko, S., and Lilliestam, J. (2025): Data on climate targets (Version 1, February 2025). Sustainability Transition Policy Group, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15476049. The authors would like to thank the German Federal Government, the German State Governments, and the Joint Science Conference (GWK) for their funding and support as part of the NFDI4Energy consortium. The work was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 501865131 within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, www.nfdi.de). Aksornchan Chaianong would also like to thank the Office for Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and the Arts at the School of Business, Economics, and Law at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg for the Individual Career Development funding.