The Climate Promise 2025 is a UN System-wide effort with an aim to help countries align their national climate pledges (NDCs) with the 1.5° goal, strengthen their quality and investability, and accelerate their implementation.
With climate impacts becoming more widespread and devastating, the window of opportunity to address the climate crisis is quickly closing. As countries embark on the next cycle of their national climate pledges (also known as NDCs) ahead of COP30, this moment stands as one of the best chances we have as an international community to ensure warming stays under 1.5°.
As sovereign and politically backed pledges, NDCs are one of the strongest tools available to integrate climate with national development priorities, plans, and investments. The national ownership of NDCs gives them their power to transition an economy.
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UNDP’s original Climate Promise, launched in 2019, became the largest offer of support on NDCs, supporting 85 percent of all developing country submissions. Over 90 percent raised mitigation ambition and 93 percent raised adaptation ambition. The revised NDCs also had higher quality data, analysis, and information.
The UN Secretary General has called on UNDP to leverage the infrastructure of its Climate Promise to drive this coordinated, UN System-wide support effort on the next round of NDCs. There is already extensive ongoing UN System support to developing countries on climate actions and their NDCs, which will be brought together and mobilized for this coordinated effort.
Climate Promise 2025 delivers support to countries across three key pillars, including raising ambition on NDC targets and aligning to SDGs, helping accelerate implementation by strengthening elements of NDCs to make them more investible, and enabling whole-of-society approaches to ensure inclusivity across the entire process.
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