Addressing climate goals with NDCs
REGIONAL representatives across the Pacific attending a three-day training in Suva are expected to discuss ideas and approaches to best communicate their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
UN Climate Change Secretariat’s, NDC and Transparency Support Mitigation, Data and Analysis program officer Bernd Hackmann said, “what the Paris agreement does is it obliges all government to put forward their own contribution on how they want to address climate change and that is what NDC is”.
“The agreement also says that the NDC has to be renewed every five years to be better than the last becoming more ambitious addressing the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
“This NDC is then submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and this workshop will inform participants on how to prepare their NDCs.”
A statement from the coordinators of the workshop GIZ said the recommendation was endorsed by Pacific Leaders at the CAPP Conference and further commitment to support the establishment of such a regional mechanism came during the 2017 pre-COP23 in Denarau, Fiji.
“By 2020, all parties are requested to act on their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), by either preparing new ones or updating their current NDCs,” the statement said.
“The NDCs communicated by 2020 will become the basis for the climate regime under the Paris Agreement, including the tracking progress of implementation and achievement of NDCs under the enhanced transparency framework through their biennial transparency reports to be submitted no later than the end of 2024, as well as for the first global stock take which will be held in 2023.”