Celebrating 10 Years of the NDC Partnership

Ten years ago, in the wake of the Paris Agreement, countries and partners came together to accelerate climate and development action, driven by a shared conviction that together, we achieve more.

Since that early commitment, the NDC Partnership has grown into a powerful and far-reaching global coalition of more than 270 members advancing the Paris Agreement by strengthening capacity and collaboration for country-owned climate and development action.

$1.9B

in technical assistance deployed

108

countries supported

321

partners mobilized

H.E. João Paulo Capobianco

Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil

NDC Partnership Co-Chair

Hon Chris Bowen MP

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Commonwealth of Australia

NDC Partnership Co-Chair

Support from the NDC Partnership has significant potential and is a decisive factor in enabling the transition from climate planning to the effective implementation of NDCs. In a challenging international context marked by increasing pressure on financial resources, sustaining engagement with the NDC Partnership and strengthening support mechanisms remains crucial.

Afef Ayed

Deputy Director, Ministry of Environment, Tunisia

The Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC) is a proud partner of the NDC Partnership, a coalition that has worked tirelessly over the past decade to help countries translate their climate and development priorities into investment and action. As core partners of the Country Platform Hub, the NDC Partnership and GCBC are working together to connect countries with the technical assistance, knowledge, and finance needed to design and operationalize country platforms. The NDC Partnership’s expertise, deep in-country experience, and trusted relationships with governments and local partners have been invaluable to this effort. GCBC congratulates the NDC Partnership on ten years of delivering for countries and looks forward to continuing to work together to deliver progress in the decade ahead.

Alex Michie

CEO, Global Capacity Building Coalition

In the NDC Partnership, it really feels like family when we come together, and that's something special about this partnership — and something that's really enjoyable to be part of.

Andreas Iversen

International Advisor, Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Denmark

Over the past decade, the NDC Partnership has shown how countries can turn climate ambition into implementation and real progress when working with partners around nationally defined priorities. It is also encouraging to see climate and development agendas increasingly converge, creating new opportunities to advance both at once. Looking ahead, the Partnership can build on its proven model to help countries build a stronger generation of NDCs into a broader transformation — one that strengthens economies, expands opportunity and improves people’s lives.

Ani Dasgupta

President and CEO, World Resources Institute

The collaboration between the NDC Partnership and Armenia has added value to climate action, with a proven track record ranging from global initiatives and national projects to day-to-day facilitation. We look forward to working through the Partnership further in the coming years to strengthen our efforts at NDC implementation.

Aram Meymaryan

Deputy Minister of Environment, Armenia

The NDC Partnership has been instrumental in developing Pakistan’s two NDCs — NDC 2 and NDC 3. It’s not merely the submission of the two documents, but the work behind it — how different institutions are aligned together in the preparation as well as in the implementation of these NDCs.

Arif Goheer

Executive Director of the Global Climate Change Impact Studies Centre, Pakistan

Over the past 10 years, the NDC Partnership has been a critical partner in helping CPI connect its climate-finance work with country-owned development goals. Its country relationships, coordination role, and trusted network have helped create the space for shared learning, stronger investment planning, and the application of practical tools such as project preparation and guarantees — within countries and across the climate and development finance ecosystem. As country-owned investment platforms and other domestic resource mobilization efforts enter their next phase, I am confident that our collective work will be more efficient, effective, and impactful with the NDC Partnership’s continued coordination and support.

Barbara Buchner

CEO, Climate Policy Initiative

The greatest benefit of being part of the NDC Partnership has been sharing insights on coordination mechanisms like climate councils, and receiving senior-level strategic advice and support as a newly established membership-based organisation. With shared goals to implement ambitious and evidence-based climate objectives at the national level, we have been impressed by the willingness to collaborate and share knowledge.

Ben Rhodes

Head of ICCN Secretariat

For the next five years, it is critical to ensure that NDC 3.0s are operationalized, and we see the NDC Partnership playing an important role in helping developing countries deliver on their NDC 3.0 commitments.

Carlos Abad Santos

Undersecretary, Department of Economy, Planning and Development, Philippines

The NDC Partnership's role in coordinating across the needs and requests of countries has been really incredible for UNDP. UNDP is an implementer, so we like to take these requests and then get countries the expertise and the support that they need. But we can't do that without the coordination role of the NDC Partnership.

Cassie Flynn

Director of the Planet Hub, UNDP

I hope the NDC Partnership in the next decade remains strong and successful in helping countries achieve NDCs and their own sustainable development goals — and that within 10 years, we will be very close to our net-zero targets.

Cristina Fróes De Borja Reis

Secretary for Carbon Markets, Ministry of Finance, Brazil and NDC Partnership Co-Chair

Having a full‑time, in‑country facilitator has enabled a much more efficient approach to networking, relationship building and data coordination. Given our limited staffing capacity, that continuity is essential for advancing climate priorities.

Dawn Pierre‑Nathoniel

Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer, Department of Sustainable Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Sustainable Development, Saint Lucia

In my view, the NDC Partnership is one of the most important platforms for brokering trusted partnerships between developing countries and supporting partners in a very agile way.

Dorthea Damkjaer

International Senior Advisor, CONCITO

The NDC Partnership played a critical role in aligning climate planning with national development processes. By enabling close collaboration across ministries, it helped avoid parallel efforts and increased the likelihood that our climate commitments can be achieved.

Duduzile Nhlengethwa‑Masina

Director of Eswatini Meteorological Service, Eswatini and NDC Partnership Focal Point

The NDC Partnership has supported us in a number of interventions, but the biggest benefit has been bringing our financial sector closer to climate action.

Ephraim Mwepya Shitima

Director for the Department of Green Economy and Climate Change, Ministry of Green Economy and Environment, Zambia

As one of the NDC Partnership's first non-nation associate members, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability has been proud to be an endorser from the very beginning. Over the past decade, one of the Partnership's greatest contributions to the global climate agenda has been creating the political and institutional space for multilevel action, recognizing that ambitious NDCs can only be delivered when local and regional governments are genuine partners in their design and implementation.

Gino Van Begin

ICLEI Secretary General

The NDC Partnership has delivered transformative results for Somalia, well beyond the development and submission of our NDC 3.0.

Hamdi Abdi Isse

Chief of Staff, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Somalia and NDC Partnership Focal Point

The NDC Partnership really delivered in those 10 years by reaching out to over 100 countries and engaging with all of them on different levels, with their different asks and challenges to form a network that none of us bilaterally or in other initiatives could have accomplished.

Heike Henn

Director-General, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), Germany

The NDC Partnership and its growth over the last 10 years is a real symbol of what momentum on partnership and NDC action has been able to achieve.

Ingrid Lundberg

Head of the Office of the COP31 President, Negotiations Team, Australia

The greatest benefit of the NDC Partnership has been its ability to facilitate coordinated support between countries and development partners around country-defined priorities. By combining national ownership with the capabilities of a broad partnership, it helps turn climate commitments into practical support for implementation by others. Over the next decade, I would like to see the Partnership continue to put countries at the center — helping translate national ambitions into practical policies, investment, and results. That means supporting countries to strengthen resilience, create jobs and economic opportunities, mobilize investment, and pursue sustainable, lower-emission development pathways.

Jamie Fergusson

Global Director, Climate, World Bank Group

Our NDC is now more ambitious and robust. Improved modeling allowed us to consolidate commitments across all mitigation sectors and inclusive participation processes reached more than 2,700 people and 400 institutions nationwide. Support strengthened the NDC.

Jessica Gallegos Yaruqui

Undersecretary of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Ecuador and NDC Partnership Focal Point

The NDC Partnership has been really brilliant over the last 10 years and a real game changer. Because it is a trust-based partnership, it has brought together countries, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and alliances in a substantive way that has been important in building countries' ambition.

Julia Wolf

Senior Forestry Officer, FAO

Our NDC aligns climate targets, national strategies and long‑term development priorities under one coherent framework. Support from the NDC Partnership in‑country facilitator added real value in ensuring that alignment and consistency throughout the process.

Justin Prosper

Director General of the Department of Energy and Climate Affairs, Seychelles

The NDC Partnership has been able to turn the idea of a bottom-up country-driven approach under the Paris Agreement into reality, by creating the supporting infrastructure and network necessary to support countries to really prepare and work on implementing their NDCs.

Kate Hughes

Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB

The NDC Partnership has created a fantastic foundation for countries to set their climate ambitions and bring the crucial actors together. In the next 10 years, I hope and trust it will significantly move forward implementation progress. I see how crucial it is that the NDC Partnership is present in countries. I think the NDC Partnership will be well-positioned to drive this acceleration forward.

Katrin Lichtenberg

Head of the Water, Environment and Climate Portfolio, UNOPS

The Partnership brings together a deeply committed community, and it has been a privilege to collaborate with and learn from countries and partners. Now, with nearly three-quarters of NDCs 3.0 considered child-responsive, the Partnership has a key role to play in implementing inclusive, transformative climate action.

Leeya Nix

Adaptation Policy Specialist, UNICEF

One of the key ways the NDC Partnership has supported us is by bringing us together through a multistakeholder process that supports a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. Wherever we go, we have our Ministry of Finance standing side by side with us.

Lovemore Dhoba

Acting Director, Climate Change Management Department, Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, Zimbabwe

The NDC Partnership has played a pivotal role from the start, fostering collaboration to expand the facility’s reach. This collective effort shows how strong institutional leadership, backed by international cooperation, can create innovative financial solutions to bridge the climate finance gap and accelerate action.

Luis Alejandro Noguera Robayo

Climate Finance Broker Manager, National Planning Department, Colombia

As a network of the world’s leading cities acting on climate change, C40 values the NDC Partnership as a way to connect national climate ambition with the needs and realities of cities on the ground. For me, one of its greatest strengths is its ability to bring national and local governments closer together around the delivery of climate action on the ground.

Mark Watts

Executive Director, C40 Cities

In a time when assistance is high as always while funds are in demand as ever, the role of the NDC Partnership stands clearer than ever. To ensure the highest possible level of implementation, to coordinate the efforts among partners and to make sure that no one is left behind.

Ole Thonke

Climate Ambassador, Denmark

The greatest benefit of being part of the NDC Partnership has been the power of coordinated, country-driven collaboration. It connects diverse global experts, governments and funders to align climate efforts and scale up national resilience without duplicating work.

Orville Grey

Head of Secretariat, National Adaptation Plan Global Network

I was there in Marrakesh. I'm really proud that I've been part of it then, and I'm really proud to take it forward into the future.

Paul Van de Logt

Head of Climate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands

Partnership support has helped Namibia access the expertise and resources needed to advance both our long-term planning and the development of NDC 3.0.

Petrus Muteyauli

Head of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Namibia

NDC Partnership support has strengthened our capacity to evaluate and design projects that attract finance. It gives us a clear and structured way to ensure our national priorities can be financed and implemented as quickly as possible.

Razi Bouzekri

Secretary General, Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Morocco, and NDC Partnership Focal Point

NDC Partnership is key in raising the baseline for climate action, to affect bankable projects, to deploy additional funds and unleash innovation!

René van Hell

Board Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Over the next decade, I really hope that we start to see some acceleration in the energy transition across the globe. And what we are really looking forward to is contributing to the NDC Partnership by providing countries with support in offshore wind when they decide that it should be part of their energy mix within a just transition.

Rikke Povlsen

Programs Operation and Events Manager, Global Offshore Wind Alliance

Being part of the NDC Partnership, in the Republic of Guinea, has been truly beneficial. Beneficial in the sense that, since Guinea joined in 2018, the NDC Partnership has supported the country not only in developing its NDC but also its implementation at the national level.

Sékou Fodé Camara

NDC Partnership Focal Point and Coordinator of the NDC, Guinea

I really want to commend the work of the NDC Partnership in supporting many countries in delivering stronger NDCs together. We now shift from words on paper to real action on the ground.

Simon Stiell

Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

NDCs are the blueprint for how each country is going to meet the Paris Agreement. Since the first NDC iteration for our country, without the NDC Partnership, we would not have been able to develop this.

Sivendra Michael

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Fiji

Engagement with the NDC Partnership has helped to ensure our work is directly responsive to government priorities, as well as providing an effective network through which to share and scale critical learnings to additional countries and stakeholders with similar needs.

Thomas Hickey

Project Director, The Pew Charitable Trusts

The greatest benefit has been combining global expertise and resources with the Commonwealth’s trusted country relationships and climate finance experience. Through our Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH), together we have supported 8 countries across 12 work programmes, while using the Commonwealth NDC Webinar Series to share practical solutions, mobilise expertise and finance, and generate best practice as a global good, thus enabling lessons from one country to inform and accelerate NDC implementation across others.

Uzoamaka Nwamarah

Head of Climate Change, The Commonwealth Secretariat

I think one of the things that's really brilliant about the NDC Partnership is that it's truly collaborative. There's no politics when we come together. It's really about countries in the same position trying to set ambitious climate plans, figure out the best way to do it and support each other.

Zoe Norgate

Deputy Director, Green Finance and Capability, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, UK

2015

Adoption of the Paris Agreement

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) become the core mechanism for country-driven climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.

2016

Launch of the NDC Partnership

The NDC Partnership is established at COP22 in Marrakesh, with Morocco and Germany as Co-Chairs and 36 founding countries and 7 founding institutions.

2017

Broadening the coalition

The Steering Committee approves a new associate member category, broadening engagement across the support ecosystem to include non-state actors.

2018

Embedding coordination support in countries

The NDC Partnership embeds in-country facilitators within governments to coordinate partner support and align stakeholders behind national climate priorities.

Providing real-time insights into country priorities

The kNook knowledge management system goes live, enabling real-time tracking of country requests and support across the NDC Partnership, now covering over 5,000 requests from 109 countries.

2019

Expanding support to include NDC development

The launch of Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) expands support beyond NDC implementation to include efforts to strengthen NDC quality, processes and ambition.

Transitioning Co-Chair leadership to Costa Rica and the Netherlands

Costa Rica and the Netherlands become NDC Partnership Co-Chairs, succeeding Morocco and Germany.

Launching the Technical Assistance Fund

To enable rapid responses to country needs, the NDC Partnership establishes its first pooled funding mechanism, the Technical Assistance Fund, precursor to the Partnership Action Fund (PAF).

2020

Adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic

As countries aim to align economic recovery efforts with climate goals following the COVID-19 pandemic, the NDC Partnership launches the Economic Advisory Initiative, embedding economic advisors to finance ministries in over 30 countries.

Transitioning Co-Chair leadership to Jamaica and the United Kingdom

Jamaica and the United Kingdom assume the NDC Partnership Co-Chairship, succeeding Costa Rica and the Netherlands.

2021

Advancing climate action through the financial sector

At COP26, the NDC Partnership introduces Readiness Support for Greening Central Banks to strengthen the capacity of central banks and financial institutions.

2023

Transitioning Co-Chair leadership to Rwanda and Denmark

Rwanda and Denmark take on Co-Chair responsibilities, succeeding Jamaica and the United Kingdom.

Mobilizing NDC 3.0 support

The Global Call for NDCs 3.0 and LT-LEDS is launched, mobilizing over 40 partners and USD 78 million in technical assistance.

2024

Launching the NDC 3.0 Navigator

The NDC Partnership and UNFCCC secretariat, with UNDP, WRI and over 30 partners, introduce the Navigator to help countries integrate Global Stocktake outcomes into NDCs 3.0.

2025

Brazil stepping into Co-Chair role

Brazil becomes Co-Chair of the NDC Partnership, succeeding Rwanda, with Denmark continuing in its position.

Supporting 101 countries in developing NDCs 3.0

By the end of the 2025 cycle, the NDC Partnership supports 101 countries through the Global Call, in-country capacity, the Partnership Action Fund (PAF) and the NDC Navigator tool.

2026