Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, are national climate action plans by each country under the Paris Agreement. A country’s NDC outlines how it plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help meet the global goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The Paris Agreement requires that NDCs are updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition, taking into consideration each country’s capacity.
After the original NDCs in 2015, and the second round in 2020/2021, the next round of NDCs – “NDCs 3.0” – are due in early 2025 and will detail countries’ intended climate actions through 2035. These new NDCs will take into account the Global Stocktake, which evaluated global progress on achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, intended to help policymakers and stakeholders strengthen their climate policies and commitments. It is critical that countries deliver more ambitious NDCs to ensure a safer and more livable future for both the planet and people everywhere.
NDCs can address and support development beyond mitigating the impacts of climate change. These national climate plans can double as national investment plans and national development plans, and help countries make a transformative shift to development that is greener and more sustainable.
African NDC Investment Summit and Awards
Launched in 2022, by Africa investor (Ai) and sponsored by the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), the NDC Investment Awards, are a global platform to showcase success stories of both the public and private sector working to innovate and break new ground, to mobilise investment and private sector participation, at scale in their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) projects.
The NDC Investment Awards are designed to recognize and reward excellence amongst public and private sector leaders, to a regional global climate finance and investment audience.
These global NDC Investment Awards highlight the benefits from professionally developing bankable NDC projects, to multiply the different sources of private and blended capital that can assist capital mobilisation for the implementation of NDC’s, to unlock the climate dividends and assist the attainment of Paris Goals commitments.
Interconnecters Energizing the Eco-system to Unlock the Potential of Power Grids
NDC Resources
What are Investable NDCs?
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IIGCC Making NDCs Investable
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Deloitte & Africa investor: African NDC’s and MDB Shareholder led Private Capital Mobilization Reforms
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Model Law Institutional Investor Public Partnerships
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Allianz $7trn Africa Energy Investment Report
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KPMG: COP28 Climate Investing Africa
Compared to industrialised nations, African countries emit far less greenhouse gases Calculated on an individual basis, CO2 emissions of Africans are more than 10 times lower than those of North Americans
Considerations in Establishing Specific, Dedicated Allocations to Emerging Markets Infrastructure and Private Equity
Some of the World’s largest, most sophisticated
2024 Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis
Investors are increasingly taking a coherent approach to address environment-related financial risks in their portfolios, including both climate and nature, and seizing the growing opportunities associated with the net zero transition.