National Communication submissions from Non-Annex I Parties

Non-Annex I Parties are required to submit their first NC within three years of entering the Convention, and every four years thereafter. The NCs shall be prepared in accordance with the guidelines contained in decision 2/CP.17(decision 2/CP17).

From 2017, the NCs shall be submitted using the National Reports Submission Portal (NRSP). Questions relating to the use of the submission portal should be addressed to reporting_nai@unfccc.int

Recent submissions^*
NC cycle	Total	Party
NC1	152	Somalia, 19 January 2019 Andorra, 2 August 2017 Palestine, 11 November 2016
NC2	135	Barbados, 18 October 2018 Guinea, 9 October 2018 Tuvalu, 19 March 2018
NC3	63	Jamaica, 14 January 2019 Bangladesh, 22 December 2018 Rwanda, 19 November 2018
NC4	5	Singapore, 27 December 2018 United Arab Emirates, 7 May 2018 Republic of Moldova, 9 February 2018
NC5	1	Mexico, 6 December 2012
NC6	1	Mexico, 28 November 2018
_{* Only the initial submissions of NCs are considered in this summary table. Detailed information on resubmissions of NCs and submissions of any related document is available in the table below.}

Status of NC submissions
Party	NC1	NC2	NC3	NC4	NC5	NC6
Afghanistan	NC1 12 Mar 2013
Albania	NC1 13 Sep 2002	NC2 23 Nov 2009	NC3 24 Oct 2016
Algeria	NC1 30 Apr 2001 GHG Inventory 30 Apr 2001	NC2 25 Nov 2010 GHG Inventory 25 Nov 2010
Andorra	Revised NC1 3 Apr 2018 (original submission date: 2 Aug 2017)
Angola	NC1 6 Feb 2012
Antigua and Barbuda	NC1 10 Sep 2001	NC2 29 Nov 2011	NC3 23 Sep 2016
Argentina	Revised NC1 11 March 1999 (original submission date: 25 Jul 1997)	NC2 7 Mar 2008	NC3 9 Dec 2015
Armenia	NC1 4 Nov 1998	Revised NC2 24 Nov 2011 (original submission date: 7 Sep 2010	NC3 22 Apr 2015
Azerbaijan	NC1 23 May 2000	NC2 7 Jun 2011	NC3 25 May 2016
Bahamas	NC1 5 Nov 2001	NC2 20 Nov 2015
Bahrain	NC1 20 Apr 2005	NC2 15 Mar 2012
Bangladesh	NC1 12 Nov 2002	NC2 26 Dec 2012	NC3 22 Dec 2018
Barbados	NC1 30 Oct 2001	NC2 18 Oct 2018
Belize	NC1 16 Sep 2002	NC2 28 Oct 2011	NC3 27 Apr 2016
Benin	NC1 21 Oct 2002	NC2 23 Nov 2011
Bhutan	NC1 13 Nov 2000	NC2 28 Nov 2011
Bolivia	NC1 16 Nov 2000	NC2 2 Dec 2009
Bosnia and Herzegovina	NC1 26 May 2010 GHG Inventory 26 May 2010	NC2 11 Nov 2013	NC3 13 Jun 2017
Botswana	NC1 22 Oct 2001	NC2 08 Jan 2013
Brazil	NC1 10 Dec 2004	NC2 30 Nov 2010	NC3 20 Apr 2016
Brunei Darussalam	NC1 23 Aug 2016	NC2 25 Nov 2017
Burkina Faso	NC1 16 May 2002 GHG Inventory 16 May 2002	NC2 1 Apr 2015
Burundi	NC1 23 Nov 2001	NC2 28 June 2010
Cambodia	NC1 8 Oct 2002	NC2 13 Jan 2016
Cameroon	NC1 31 Jan 2005	NC2 11 Mar 2016
Cape Verde (Republic of)	NC1 13 Nov 2000	NC2 21 Oct 2011	NC3 5 Oct 2018
Central African Republic	NC1 (only hardcopy) 10 Jun 2003	NC2 5 Feb 2015
Chad	NC1 29 Oct 2001	NC2 4 Jun 2013
Chile	NC1 8 Feb 2000	NC2 24 Oct 2011	NC3 16 Nov 2016
China	NC1 10 Dec 2004	NC2 8 Nov 2012
Colombia	NC1 18 Dec 2001	NC2 7 Dec 2010	NC3 12 Sep 2017
Comoros	NC1 5 Apr 2003	NC2 24 Jun 2013
Congo	NC1 30 Oct 2001	NC2 27 Nov 2009
Cook Islands	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 12 Apr 2012
Costa Rica	NC1 18 Nov 2000	NC2 7 Oct 2009	NC3 11 Dec 2014
Côte d'Ivoire	NC1 2 Feb 2001	NC2 26 Apr 2010	NC3 31 Dec 2017
Cuba	NC1 28 Sep 2001 GHG Inventory 28 Sep 2001	NC2 1 Oct 2015
Cyprus*
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	NC1 7 May 2004	NC2 15 Oct 2013
Democratic Republic of the Congo	NC1 21 Nov 2000	NC2 28 Nov 2009	NC3 21 Apr 2015
Djibouti	NC1 2 Jun 2002 GHG Inventory 2 Jun 2002	NC2 19 Feb 2014
Dominica	NC1 4 Dec 2001	NC2 20 Nov 2012
Dominican Republic	NC1 4 Jun 2003	NC2 17 Dec 2009	NC3 14 Nov 2017
Ecuador	NC1 15 Nov 2000	NC2 2 Apr 2012	NC3 5 Sep 2017
Egypt	NC1 19 Jul 1999	NC2 7 Jun 2010	NC3 8 Nov 2016 GHG inventory 8 Nov 2016
El Salvador	NC1 10 Apr 2000	NC2 11 Sep 2013	NC3 29 Sep 2018
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea	NC1 16 Sep 2002	NC2 10 Aug 2012
Eswatini	NC1 21 May 2002	NC2 31 Mar 2012	NC3 6 Oct 2016
Ethiopia	NC1 16 Oct 2001	NC2 11 May 2016
Fiji	NC1 18 May 2006	NC2 31 Jul 2014
Gabon	NC1 22 Dec 2004	NC2 8 Dec 2011
Gambia	NC1 6 Oct 2003	NC2 28 Jan 2013
Georgia	NC1 10 Aug 1999	NC2 2 Oct 2009	NC3 24 Feb 2016
Ghana	NC1 2 May 2001 GHG Inventory 2 May 2001	NC2 12 Oct 2011 GHG Inventory 12 Oct 2011	NC3 21 Jul 2015 GHG Inventory 21 Jul 2015
Grenada	NC1 21 Nov 2000 GHG Inventory 21 Nov 2000
Guatemala	NC1 1 Feb 2002	NC2 11 Jan 2016 GHG Inventory 1 Apr 2012
Guinea	NC1 28 Oct 2002	NC2 9 Oct 2018
Guinea-Bissau	NC1 1 Dec 2005	NC2 29 Oct 2011	NC3 9 Mar 2018
Guyana	NC1 16 May 2002 Addendum 16 May 2002	NC2 24 Sep 2012
Haiti	NC1 3 Jan 2002	NC2 7 Oct 2013
Honduras	NC1 15 Nov 2000	NC2 5 Apr 2012
India	NC1 22 Jun 2004	NC2 4 May 2012
Indonesia	NC1 27 Oct 1999	NC2 14 Jan 2011	Revised NC3 14 Feb 2018 (original submission date: 31 Jan 2018)
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	NC1 31 Mar 2003	NC2 23 Nov 2011	NC3 11 Aug 2018
Iraq	Revised NC1 12 Aug 2017 (original submission: 5 Dec 2015)
Israel	NC1 18 Nov 2000	NC2 7 Dec 2010	NC3 6 Aug 2018
Jamaica	NC1 21 Nov 2000	NC2 2 Dec 2011	NC3 14 Jan 2019
Jordan	NC1 6 Mar 1997	NC2 8 Dec 2009	NC3 2 Dec 2014
Kazakhstan	NC1 5 Nov 1998	NC2 4 Jun 2009
Kenya	NC1 22 Oct 2002	NC2 11 Dec 2015
Kiribati	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 27 Jun 2013
Kuwait	NC1 30 Nov 2012
Kyrgyzstan	NC1 31 Mar 2003	NC2 1 Dec 2008	NC3 24 Jan 2017
Lao People's Democratic Republic	NC1 2 Nov 2000	NC2 24 Jun 2013
Lebanon	NC1 2 Nov 1999	NC2 11 Feb 2011	NC3 17 Nov 2016
Lesotho	NC1 17 Apr 2000	NC2 20 Nov 2013
Liberia	NC1 28 Jun 2013
Libya
Madagascar	NC1 22 Feb 2004	NC2 7 Dec 2010	NC3 5 Nov 2017
Malawi	NC1 2 Dec 2003	NC2 9 May 2012
Malaysia	NC1 22 Aug 2000	NC2 14 Apr 2011	NC3 27 Sep 2018
Maldives	NC1 5 Nov 2001	Revised NC2 28 Aug 2018 (original submission date: 13 Oct 2016)
Mali	NC1 13 Nov 2000	NC2 4 May 2012	NC3 2 Aug 2018
Malta ³	NC1 16 Jun 2004	NC2 27 Jul 2010
Marshall Islands	NC1 24 Nov 2000	NC2 11 Dec 2015
Mauritania	NC1 30 Jul 2002	NC2 6 Dec 2008	NC3 27 Oct 2014
Mauritius	NC1 28 May 1999	NC2 9 Nov 2011 GHG Inventory 9 Nov 2011	NC3 20 Jan 2017
Mexico	NC1 9 Dec 1997	NC2 23 Jul 2001	NC3 11 Nov 2006	NC4 14 Dec 2009	NC5 6 Dec 2012	NC6 28 Nov 2018 GHG Inventory 28 Nov 2018
Micronesia (Federated States of)	NC1 4 Dec 1997 Addendum 30 Oct 1999	NC2 12 Nov 2015
Mongolia	NC1 1 Nov 2001	NC2 10 Dec 2010	NC3 1 Dec 2018 (Original submission date: 23 Apr 2018)
Montenegro	NC1 12 Oct 2010	NC2 28 May 2015
Morocco	NC1 1 Nov 2001 Addendum 1 Nov 2001	NC2 3 Nov 2010	NC3 7 May 2016
Mozambique	NC1 2 Jun 2006
Myanmar	NC1 26 Dec 2012
Namibia	NC1 7 Oct 2002	NC2 4 Oct 2011	NC3 2 Dec 2015
Nauru	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 1 Apr 2015
Nepal	NC1 1 Sep 2004	NC2 4 Dec 2015
Nicaragua	NC1 25 Jul 2001 Addendum 25 Jul 2001	NC2 22 Jun 2011	NC3 30 Aug 2018
Niger	NC1 13 Nov 2000	NC2 9 Dec 2009	NC3 4 Jan 2017
Nigeria	NC1 17 Nov 2003	NC2 27 Feb 2014
Niue	NC1 2 Oct 2001	NC2 17 Sep 2016
Oman (Sultanate of)	NC1 30 Oct 2013
Palestine	NC1 11 Nov 2016 Addendum 11 Nov 2016
Pakistan	NC1 15 Nov 2003
Palau	NC1 18 Jun 2003
Panama	NC1 20 Jul 2001	NC2 2 Mar 2012	NC3 19 Oct 2018
Papua New Guinea	NC1 27 Feb 2002 Addendum 27 Feb 2002	NC2 15 Dec 2015
Paraguay	NC1 10 Apr 2002	NC2 8 Dec 2011	NC3 15 Sep 2017
Peru	NC1 21 Aug 2001	NC2 28 Sep 2010	NC3 23 Apr 2016
Philippines	NC1 19 May 2000 GHG Inventory 19 May 2000	NC2 29 Dec 2014
Qatar	NC1 20 Jun 2011
Republic of Korea	NC1 12 Feb 1998	NC2 1 Dec 2003	NC3 20 Mar 2012
Republic of Moldova	NC1 13 Nov 2000	NC2 27 Jan 2010 GHG Inventory 27 Jan 2010	NC3 20 Jan 2014 GHG Inventory 20 Jan 2014	NC4 9 Feb 2018 GHG Inventory 29 Dec 2017
Rwanda	NC1 6 Sep 2005	NC2 5 Jun 2012	NC3 19 Nov 2018
Saint Kitts and Nevis	NC1 30 Nov 2001	NC2 11 Mar 2016
Saint Lucia	NC1 30 Nov 2001	NC2 19 Apr 2012	NC3 13 Sep 2017 GHG Inventory 13 Sep 2017
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	NC1 21 Nov 2000	NC2 29 Apr 2016
Samoa	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 14 Jun 2010 GHG Inventory 14 Jun 2010
San Marino	NC1 24 Aug 2009	NC2 28 Jan 2013
Sao Tome and Principe	NC1 19 May 2005 Addendum 1 Dec 1997	NC2 3 Oct 2012
Saudi Arabia	NC1 29 Nov 2005	NC2 25 Oct 2011	NC3 22 Dec 2016
Senegal	NC1 1 Dec 1997 Addendum 1 Dec 1997	NC2 16 Sep 2010	NC3 8 Jan 2016
Serbia	NC1 29 Nov 2010	NC2 23 Oct 2017
Seychelles	NC1 15 Nov 2000	NC2 14 Apr 2013
Sierra Leone	NC1 8 Jan 2007	NC2 2 Dec 2012	NC3 4 Mar 2018
Singapore	NC1 21 Aug 2000	NC2 12 Nov 2010	NC3 8 Dec 2014	NC4 27 Dec 2018
Solomon Islands	NC1 29 Sep 2004	NC2 14 Sep 2017
South Africa	NC1 11 Dec 2003	NC2 16 Nov 2011	NC3 31 Aug 2018 Additional Information 5 Dec 2018
South Sudan
Somalia	NC1 19 Jan 2019
Sri Lanka	NC1 6 Nov 2000	NC2 16 Mar 2012
Sudan	NC1 7 June 2003	NC2 14 Nov 2013
Suriname	NC1 27 Mar 2006	NC2 15 Mar 2016
Syrian Arab Republic	NC1 29 Dec 2010 GHG Inventory 29 Dec 2010
Tajikistan	NC1 8 Oct 2002 Addendum 8 Oct 2002	NC2 31 Dec 2008	NC3 29 Dec 2014
Thailand	NC1 13 Nov 2000 GHG Inventory 13 Nov 2000	NC2 24 Mar 2011	NC3 29 Aug 2018
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	NC1 25 Mar 2003 GHG Inventory 25 Mar 2003	NC2 15 Jan 2009	NC3 3 Mar 2014 GHG Inventory 3 Mar 2014
Timor-Leste	NC1 11 Oct 2014
Togo	NC1 20 Dec 2001	NC2 15 Sep 2011	NC3 7 Nov 2015
Tonga	NC1 21 Jul 2005	NC2 2 May 2012
Trinidad and Tobago	NC1 30 Nov 2001 GHG Inventory 30 Nov 2001	NC2 7 Nov 2013
Tunisia	NC1 27 Oct 2001	NC2 14 Feb 2014
Turkmenistan	NC1 11 Nov 2000 Addendum 8 Nov 2006 GHG Inventory 11 Nov 2001	NC2 29 Nov 2010	NC3 5 Jan 2016
Tuvalu	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 19 Mar 2018
Uganda	NC1 26 Oct 2002	NC2 2 Dec 2014
United Arab Emirates	NC1 2 Jan 2007	NC2 7 Apr 2010	NC3 21 Aug 2013	revised NC4 21 Jan 2019 (original submission: 7 May 2018)
United Republic of Tanzania	NC1 4 Jul 2003	NC2 9 Nov 2015
Uruguay	NC1 15 Oct 1997	NC2 11 May 2004 GHG Inventory 11 May 2004	NC3 18 Nov 2010 GHG Inventory 18 Nov 2010	revised NC4 7 Mar 2017 (original submission: 28 Oct 2016) revised GHG Inventory 7 Mar 2017 (original submission date: 28 Oct 2016)
Uzbekistan	NC1 22 Oct 1999	NC2 3 Dec 2008 GHG Inventory 3 Dec 2008	NC3 21 Feb 2017 GHG Inventory 21 Feb 2017
Vanuatu	NC1 30 Oct 1999	NC2 30 Aug 2016
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	NC1 13 Oct 2005	NC2 25 Jan 2018
Viet Nam	NC1 2 Dec 2003	NC2 7 Dec 2010
Yemen	NC1 29 Oct 2001	NC2 6 Jun 2013	revised NC3 05 Dec 2018 (Original submission date: 02 Oct 2018)
Zambia	NC1 18 Aug 2004	NC2 16 Nov 2014
Zimbabwe	NC1 25 May 1998	NC2 31 Jan 2013	NC3 12 Jan 2017

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1. In accordance with the COP decision 10/CP.17 and following the notification from the Depositary, as of 9 January 2013 Cyprus is considered to be an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention.↩
2. In accordance with the COP conclusion (FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.4, section V.C.) and following ratification by Kazakhstan of the Kyoto Protocol on 19 June 2009 and its entry into force on 17 September 2009, Kazakhstan is considered an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Protocol but remains to be a non-Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention.↩
3. In accordance with the COP decision 3/CP.15 and following the notification from the Depositary and Malta's entry into force on 26 October 2010, Malta is considered to be an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention. ↩

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