Climate Vocabulary: Do you know what NDCs stands for? Nationally Determined Contributions.
At the core of the 2017 Paris Agreement on climate change, NDCs are defined by the UNFCCC as “national climate plans highlighting climate actions, including climate related targets, policies and measures governments aims to implement in response to climate change and as a contribution to global climate action”.
The key is “nationally determined” – each country voluntarily determines, based on its own unique situation and condition, its climate targets and actions.
New NDC plans are to be announced by each country by 2020. Go and find out what your country’s NDCs are …
The deadline for countries to declare their NDCs is next year, 2020.