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One of the main questions in climate policymaking is to understand the economic and social costs and benefits. The potential to create employment…

Verania has worked for UNDP for more than a decade, developing strong expertise in gender, climate, and environment issues. As her work has focused on the integration of gender equality and women's empowerment into national planning and capacity-building processes, she is currently spearheading the…

A workshop on “Building the business case for Climate and SDG Action in Uganda” was held from 18-19 June 2019, gathering over 90 participants from…

The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA) programme supports countries to enhance climate action in land use and agriculture.The programme uses Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC s) and/or…

The document outlines the design and development of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System (MER) for Marine-Coastal Zones for the Climate…

Samoa is a small island developing state located in the South West Pacific that has been heavily impacted by an increase in severe tropical storms…

Grace Balawag is a Kankanaey-Igorot Indigenous woman from the Mountain Province, Philippines. She is a social development specialist and serves as the Assistant Program Coordinator of the Climate Change and Biodiversity Program under Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy…

An overview of private sector opportunities with economic, social and environmental potential for sustainable development progress across Africa.

NDC Status Cameroon submitted its revised NDC in October 2021. Key highlights from the NDC Cameroon increased their mitigation target to 35% by 2030 compared to 2010, including an unconditional contribution of 12%. The updated NDC also reflects Cameroon's vision for…

Jamison Ervin is manager of the Nature for Development Programme within UNDP’s Nature Hub. She has worked at the nexus of climate, biodiversity and sustainable development since 1992. She has a Ph.D. in land use planning, and has previously worked with the Forest Stewardship Council, World Wide…

This case study explains how Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement will help Ghana to enhance NDC implementation and achieve national development plans…

NDC Status Armenia submitted its revised NDC in May 2021. The revision of the NDC was supported by the European Union (EU) through the EU4Climate initiative. Funded by the EU and implemented by UNDP, EU4Climate supports six countries in the Eastern Partnership implement the Paris Agreement and…

Transforming Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into tangible actions that lead to long-term zero-carbon and climate-resilient development…

NDC Status Bahamas submitted its updated NDC in November 2022. Key highlights from the NDC The Bahamas maintains its mitigation target from the Intended NDC : a 30% reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by 2030 compared to business as usual and reaching at least 30% of renewable energy…

Transforming Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into tangible actions that lead to long-term zero-carbon and climate-resilient development…

Liam Fee is an Adaptation Planning Specialist at UNDP’s Climate Hub. He supports UNDP’s portfolio of projects on national adaptation planning, working with countries that are formulating project proposals related to National Adaptation Plans. He also supports UNDP’s efforts to ensure greater…

This inventory provides a comprehensive overview of how countries across the region are integrating a gender approach into their climate policy…

Chile committed not only to a reduction in the intensity of its CO2 emissions by at least 30% by 2030, the promotion of non-conventional…

NDC Status Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted its revised NDC in April 2021. Key highlights from the NDC Bosnia and Herzegovina updated its conditional greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 36.8% below 1990 levels by 2030. The country also increased the unconditional…

NDC Status Lao PDR submitted its revised NDC in May 2021. Key highlights from the NDC Lao PDR raised ambition in its revised NDC with an unconditional emission reduction target of 60% by 2030, relative to the baseline scenario. The country strengthened mitigation measures in the…