Making Next Round of National Climate Pledges Succeed
By Jennifer BaumwollUNDP Head of Climate Strategies and Policy For those of us following the climate crisis unfold every day, the urgency with which we need to act has never been clearer. The past few years have brought into sharp…
New UN Climate Change Report Shows National Climate Plans ‘Fall Miles Short of What’s Needed’
The following is a statement from UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on the release of the 2024 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Synthesis Report on 28 October 2024. The report assesses the combined impact of nations’ current national climate plans…
How Policy Crediting can Accelerate Climate Action
To understand what policy crediting is and how it works in terms of results-based climate finance, we sat down with Nuyi Tao, Senior Climate Finance Specialist with the World Bank’s Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF) and Maksudjon Safarov, Senior Energy…
Next-generation Climate Targets: A 5-Point Plan for NDCs
By Jamal Srouji, Taryn Fransen, Sophie Boehm, David Waskow, Rebecca Carter and Gaia Larsen By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction…