This report aims to help government officials identify options for enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in line with the Paris Agreement. It offers guidance on establishing a process for NDC enhancement, enhancing mitigation and adaptation components of NDCs, and communicating NDCs transparently. Additionally, it reflects on aligning NDCs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and on the role of finance in NDC enhancement.
The objective of this guidance is to help countries design an enhanced NDC for communication to the UNFCCC by 2020. The guidance proposes an overarching framework that countries can use to think through the process of, and options for, updating their NDCs. Its use is entirely voluntary; countries are free to use it in whole or in part and to adapt it to their national circumstances as relevant. The guidance is intended to complement, but not substitute for, NDC provisions in the Paris Agreement and the Paris Agreement Work Programme.
This overarching framework will be supplemented by more detailed guidance on particular sectors and themes. These subsequent modules will address electric power generation and use, transportation, agriculture, forest and land use, oceans, short-lived climate pollutants, and potentially other sectors.