Quality criteria for integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

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World Health Organization (WHO)

This document seeks to guide policy-makers, ministry of health staff, and staff of other government departments leading and contributing to NDCs to integrate health in their countries’ NDCs. It aims to support the health sector to understand the international and national climate plan processes, plans and terminology and the key entry points for health.

It provides an overview of the structure, quality criteria for health integration, examples, and useful resources for the main components of NDCs: leadership and enabling environment; national circumstances and policy priorities; mitigation; adaptation; loss and damage; finance; and implementation.

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