Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) form the backbone of the Paris Agreement. They are countries’ detailed, time-bound commitments to transformative low-carbon and climate-resilient action toward the overall goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The forest and land use sector can provide up to one third of the emissions reductions needed to meet that goal and avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, representing the most significant opportunity to increase the ambition of NDCs in many tropical forested countries. Recognizing the essential role of the sector to meeting the Paris Agreement targets, 90% of new or updated NDCs include forests and land use.
Despite this demonstrated political will, tropical primary forest loss continues to increase. Substantially accelerated efforts are needed to ensure that reduced deforestation and forest degradation, improved forest management and restoration contribute fully to solving the climate crisis.
UNDP Climate & Forests provides support to countries to assess, enhance, and accelerate NDC mitigation actions in the forest and land use sector by:
- Facilitating high-level policy coordination and multi-stakeholder dialogues
- Supporting NDC finance strategies and investment opportunities for forests and land use
- Developing policies and measures to support expansion of forest and land use coverage
- Driving NDC ambition and implementation through performance-based finance for the forest sector
- Facilitating stakeholder inclusion in the implementation of the forest and land-use aspects of NDC implementation
UNDP’s Paris Agreement LULUCF Assessment & NDC Tool (PLANT) assists countries with data and information to enable their assessment of opportunities to enhance the contribution of the forest sector to NDC mitigation targets, the potential for high-quality emission reductions/removals available for carbon market access, and the systems and processes needed to meet the requirements of the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement.
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