Delivering on Ambitious NDCs 3.0
Through the NDC Partnership, developing countries set and achieve ambitious climate targets to drive sustainable development
Countries are raising ambition to the highest possible level and charting a clear path for rapid implementation and financing through their “NDCs 3.0,” the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due in 2025.
Their efforts address the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake (GST), which concluded that the world is not yet on track to achieve the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement. Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions and financial flows consistent with low-emission, climate-resilient development.
NDCs 3.0, taken together, represent a critical opportunity to course correct, driving greater ambition and rapid progress on mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation. With Partnership support, developing countries are raising mitigation and adaptation ambition and creating enabling conditions to accelerate implementation, attract climate finance and establish ownership across ministries, levels of government and the whole of society.
To support NDC 3.0 development, the NDC Partnership:
- Equips countries to implement GST outcomes, identifying opportunities to raise ambition to the highest degree possible in line with national circumstances
- Supports countries in developing NDCs 3.0 that readily translate into clear implementation and investment plans that unlock finance.
- Connects climate and development priorities, driving transformational change that involves the whole of government and the whole of society.
- Captures and disseminates best practices that draw on country insights and the diverse expertise of our members.
- Matches country needs to partner resources, delivering support when and where it is most needed.
- Identifies critical support gaps that remain, highlighting opportunities for further partner engagement in the pursuit of global climate ambition.
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With support from NDC Partnership members, countries develop ambitious NDCs 3.0 complemented by robust implementation and investment plans.
Supporting Countries With Their NDCs
The NDC Partnership can ensure that NDCs 3.0 build on areas where more ambition is needed to drive transformation — and where challenges remain.
Ambitious NDCs designed for implementation can unlock finance and advance climate action that delivers social and economic transformation.
The Context for NDCs 3.0
NDCs 3.0, the next round of NDCs due in 2025, are expected to build on previous commitments, demonstrating the highest possible ambition to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including its long-term temperature goal and global goal on adaptation, while building far greater resilience.
Under the five-year Paris Agreement ratcheting mechanism, NDCs 3.0 are due by 2025. These NDCs will form the basis of countries’ climate commitments up to 2035 and will be highly important documents for this critical decade and beyond.
Right now, despite overall progress on mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation and support, there is far more work ahead to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement. Ambition is not yet high enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C, and a significant gap exists between countries’ mitigation and adaptation targets, policies and access to climate finance.
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stipulates that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C requires reductions in emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to 2019 levels and net-zero emissions by 2050.
NDCs 3.0 are a critical opportunity for urgent, ambitious, transformational and country-driven mitigation and adaptation action and for scaling up financing.
