FINAL EVALUATION OF THE DEEPENING EFFORTS TO ACCELERATE NDC IMPLEMENTATION (NDC PROJECT)
FINAL EVALUATION OF THE DEEPENING EFFORTS TO ACCELERATE NDC IMPLEMENTATION (NDC PROJECT)
January 25, 2023
With the increasingly worrisome trend of global climate change, the Paris Agreement was established in which global leaders reiterated their commitment to reduce global warming to well below two degrees Celsius and pursue efforts to further reduce surface temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030 relative to pre-industrial levels. In order to strengthen the implementation of these commitments, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) encourages Parties to submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) indicating goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across sectors within national boundaries. Additionally, the National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) were institutionalized at the Cancun climate conference in 2010, meant to help countries plan for climate change adaptation and its integration into national development policies. In other words, the NAPs are generally meant to elaborate the actions to be taken in order to implement the broader goals specified in the NDCs. As of September 2022, 15 countries categorized as least developed countries (LDCs) had submitted their NAPs to UNFCCC.