On 27 June 2024, RCC LatAm will host a regional webinar to advance development of the NDCs 3.0. The Regional Collaboration Centre for Latin America supports governments in the region as they look to develop an ambitious third round of Nationally Determined Contributions in early 2025.

Objectives

The webinar aims to facilitate space to exchange knowledge and experiences among Latin American countries regarding the challenges faced in the preparation and updating of NDCs. Through these sessions, we seek to identify common challenges, share best practices, and foster collaboration among the countries of the region. This webinar aims to:

• Understand the current NDC implementation process.
• Identify successful practices and key challenges in the NDC implementation.
• Provide suggestions for enhancing ambition and feasibility in the next cycle of NDCs 3.0

Background

It is a critical time as the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due in 2025, requires new and more ambitious NDCs from countries. The Global Stocktake (GST) outcome agreed upon at COP28 underlined that despite overall progress on mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation and support, Parties are not yet collectively on track towards achieving the purpose of the Paris Agreement and its long-term goals, and encouraged Parties to come forward with ambitious, economy-wide emission reduction targets, covering all greenhouse gases, sectors and categories and aligned with the 1.5°C limit in their next round of NDCs.

NDCs are submitted every five years to the UNFCCC secretariat, and this is the third round, due by early 2025. The second round of NDCs in its totality has shown that current efforts and plans are insufficient to put the world on track to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

The latest science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 60% by 2035, compared to 2019 levels, and that adaptation and mitigation must be pursued with equal force and urgency to advance sustainable development for all. The GST invited the secretariat including their Regional Collaboration Centers (RCCs) and organizations in a position to do so, to provide capacity-building support for the preparation and communication of the next NDCs.

The first generation, NDC 1.0, and the second generation, NDC 2.0, have yielded valuable insights through their implementation, which provides orientation for the development of the upcoming cycle, NDC 3.0. This platform will be instrumental in understanding the processes undertaken by each Party and how to progress towards achieving the goals outlined in Article 2 of the Paris Agreement, including in this new round of NDC 3.0 submissions. Drawing from the challenges and best practices observed in the construction and implementation of past NDCs, Parties can then apply them in this new round of NDCs 3.0 submissions 9 to 12 months before COP 30.