The Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA) portal is the UN Climate Change’s transparency hub for non-Party stakeholders and the Global Climate Action Agenda. It is a global online platform that registers and showcases climate actions undertaken by countries, regions, cities, companies, investors and a wide range of other organizations.
Launched at COP20 in Lima, Peru in 2014, the portal was created in recognition of the fact that addressing climate change requires ambitious, broad-based and coordinated action from all segments of society, both public and private.
Crucially, NAZCA helped build momentum toward the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Following the portal's formal inclusion in the Agreement’s Decision Text, countries recognized the efforts of all actors to scale-up their climate actions and encouraged them to register these actions on NAZCA.
Since then, the portal has evolved significantly, improving usability through an intuitive map interface and expanding the breadth of information reported by non-Party Stakeholder (NPS) and voluntary climate initiatives, including commitments, inventories, plans, actions and progress towards publicly disclosed targets.
Its ongoing aim is to present a clear and comprehensive view of global climate action, recognize the efforts of all actors, and inspire greater ambition for the good of current and future generations.
NAZCA Redevelopment and Engagement Roadmap
The NAZCA portal is undergoing a redevelopment designed to enhance the role of the UNFCCC secretariat as the custodian and central repository of credible climate action data from NPS related to mitigation, adaptation and resilience, and means of implementation. To achieve this holistic approach, the UNFCCC aims to engage additional data providers and facilitate direct interactions with actors through a suite of stakeholder engagement tools, complementing data received through voluntary or regulatory disclosure platforms.
By adopting a more holistic and inclusive approach, the portal will foster an enabling environment to catalyse higher ambition among actors and enable the sharing of information to advance implementation. Moreover, the NAZCA portal will be synced with the new UNFCCC Climate Data Hub, currently under development, which will represent the single, centralized, and authoritative source of global climate data and information to inform policymakers, stakeholders, and the public, supporting multilateral climate change processes, climate actions, and transparency.
In addition to the redevelopment of the NAZCA portal, some aspects of which are already underway, the secretariat has also introduced a new engagement strategy to convene stakeholders across multiple channels. The newly established NAZCA Network aims to bring climate action information and analysis directly to stakeholders, recognize ambition and implementation, and use their feedback to inform continuous enhancements to the portal.
More information can be found in the NAZCA Portal Redevelopment and Engagement Roadmap, which was launched at COP30 in Belém.
Progress Tracking
At COP26 in November 2021, the NAZCA portal introduced a mechanism to track voluntary climate action. Since then, it has been used to capture the progress of individual actors and cooperative initiatives registered on the portal.
The outcomes of this progress tracking are available on the NAZCA portal’s Actor tracking page and Cooperative Initiatives tracking page.
Tracking Progress Against Targets
As part of the current tracking mechanism, the 'Progress Against Target' indicator provides information regarding the progress that an individual city, company, investor, region or organization has made towards a tracked commitment registered on the portal. The value represents the percentage completed in a given reporting year with respect to a base year value and projected final value (specified within the target itself).
Where progress against a target is reported directly by an actor as part of their disclosure to a NAZCA data provider, the value is shown as reported. If an actor is not requested to provide this information as part of their climate disclosure, but the values used for its calculation are available, progress against target may be calculated by the data provider to whom the target and associated information is reported.
Contact
For more information, please contact to: NAZCA@unfccc.int
