Uruguay

NDC Status

Uruguay submitted its second NDC in December 2022.

Key highlights from the NDC

Uruguay’s second NDC represents a significant increase in ambition compared to the first NDC, confirming the path towards emission stability and carbon neutrality that the country has set out in its long-term climate strategy.
It introduced, for the first time, absolute unconditional mitigation targets for three main greenhouse gases (GHG), establishing not to exceed 9.267 GgCO2, 818 GgCH4 and 32 GgN2O emissions by the year 2030.
The country’s new commitments on reductions of GHG emissions intensity from beef production represented an increase from the previous NDC, and it maintained the commitment to preserve 100% of the native forest and increase carbon stocks through forest management.
Uruguay has included a new greenhouse gas, HFC, in the mitigation targets. It has set the goal of 10% HFC emissions reduction by 2030, demonstrating the country's commitment to comply with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
The second NDC deepens measures in its main adaptation areas and adds transversal measures, such as strengthening systems of climate risk information, risk management, estimation of losses and damages, and analysis of the impacts of climate change on migration and displacement.
Uruguay developed its second NDC within the framework of the National Climate Change Response System, working across different thematic groups such as gender, education, communication and awareness, and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification, to achieve an integrated document.
A participatory process for the development of this NDC included an open digital platform where contributions and comments could be sent, and technical aspects and progress of the document were reported.