On Wednesday, 26 June 2024, RCC EAS Africa will host a regional webinar to advance development of the NDCs 3.0. The Regional Collaboration Centre for East and Southern Africa 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 East and Southern Africa 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 seeks to:

• Understand needs of Parties for the process to develop their NDCs 3.0
• Identify successful practices and common challenges for NDC preparation and updates
• Provide suggestions that enhance ambition and enable implementation of the NDCs 3.0

Background

It is a critical time as the next round of NDCs due in 2025 requires new and more ambitious NDCs from countries. The Global Stocktake (GST) outcome agreed 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 UN Climate Change secretariat. This third round is due by February 2025. The previous round of NDCs shows that current efforts and plans are insufficient to put the world on track to achieve the 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 Centres (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 challenges and best practices observed in the development and implementation of past NDCs, Parties can apply them in this new round of NDC 3.0 submissions nine to 12 months ahead of COP30.