Research and Reports

This guidance note highlights youth-led efforts to address climate-related security risks.
This paper explores findings on how UNDP’s Climate, Peace, and Security (CPS) work engages youth, fosters inclusion, and promotes youth empowerment.
This paper shares insights from a Youth4Climate: Sparking Solutions event, highlighting research to be explored by young climate leaders.
'On Equal Terms' provides officials, policymakers, and other climate practitioners with a guide for establishing a youth-inclusive process for NDCs.
This guidance explores what meaningful youth engagement in climate action looks like, both conceptually and practically.

UNDP’s Climate Promise remains the largest global offer of NDC support, covering over 120 countries and territories.

The G20 Peoples’ Climate Vote polled over 689,000 people across 18 of the G20 countries from October 2020 until June 2021. This includes over 302,000…

The climate crisis has the potential to irreversibly change our futures.

Climate ambition is nuanced and context specific. This new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report explores how the world is progressing…
This policy brief was developed as a result of broad consultations from representations of youth organizations from all the ten provinces of Zimbabwe…

As of 31 July 2021, 113 countries representing 53.7% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have submitted new or updated NDCs.

As of April 2021, UNDP is now supporting 118 countries on NDC enhancement under the Climate Promise, including 38 LDCs, 28 SIDS, 14 higher-…