Paraguay

NDC Status

Paraguay submitted its third NDC in November 2025.

Key highlights from the NDC

• Paraguay's third NDC strengthens both mitigation and adaptation ambition.
• Paraguay commits to a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below the Business-as-Usual (BAU) scenario by 2030 and 2035 with domestic resources, and an additional 10 percent conditional reduction, dependent on international support.
• While maintaining the same targets as the previous NDC, the new version is more ambitious due to greater sectoral detail, inclusion of robust Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems for mitigation and adaptation, and use of updated data from the national GHG Inventories. These economy-wide commitments, covering agriculture, land use and forestry, energy and transport, industry, and waste, reflect Paraguay's intent to act as a net positive contributor to global climate stabilization.
• The NDC emphasizes cross-cutting priorities, including gender equality, just transition, Indigenous Peoples' participation, and ecosystem-based approaches, anchored in Paraguay's constitutional principles of equity and social justice. The NDC also reinforces coherence with the three Rio Conventions and alignment with the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), maximizing synergies among climate action, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and desertification control.
• Paraguay estimates US$24 billion in financial needs by 2030 and has strengthened its climate finance architecture. The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) leads this effort through a green budget tagging system, a forthcoming National Climate Finance Strategy, and an MRV for climate finance flows, fostering alliances to boost private investment, carbon markets, and access to multilateral climate funds.
• Developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES), the third NDC process was supported by UNDP's Climate Promise.

NAP Status

Paraguay submitted its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to the UNFCCC in May 2020 and then its updated NAP in July 2022 (Spanish).