Background:

Following the submission of the latest round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), attention must swiftly shift to translating NDCs into action. This transition to implementation places the focus on delivering climate action aligned with national development objectives, within increasingly constrained resources.

The UNFCCC Annual Global Stocktake Dialogue Reports1 illustrate the breadth of issues shaping NDC preparation and implementation, with finance featuring prominently as an integral part of the implementation stage. While insufficient financing is often highlighted in discussions on NDC implementation, countries also face challenges in unpacking NDCs and translating them into prioritized, structured, finance- and implementation-ready actions.

As countries move forward with this process, they engage with an increasingly diverse landscape of domestic and international, public and private finance sources with different requirements, timelines, and risk–return expectations. This complexity can make it harder to connect actions with appropriate sources of finance, highlighting the importance of effective domestic coordination across institutions and the need to prioritize, sequence, and organize implementation actions.

Building on the success of the NDC Regional Forums in 2024 and the NDC Clinics in 2025 and responding to requests from Parties in the Mutirão Decision to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and good practices related to NDCs through peer exchange workshops, the UNFCCC secretariat and its RCCs, UNDP, UNEP, NDC Partnership and GIZ are co-organizing the first peer exchange workshop for NDC implementation under the 1st Climate Week in Yeosu, Korea. This peer exchange aims to support countries in translating NDCs into coordinated implementation pathways for both emissions reductions and climate resilience.

This workshop will provide a dynamic platform to reflect among peers on coordination and collaboration to enable NDC implementation. It will draw on practical experiences, country-led perspectives and the contribution of regional and international implementing organizations and other stakeholders.