Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) have become one of the key climate tools for countries, through which they define the actions and strategies that will allow them
to advance in decarbonization and sustainable transformation. In this sense, their knowledge and analysis are fundamental for transparency, a line established in the Paris Agreement, as well as for the involvement of the different actors of society in the measurement of implementation and accountability progress.
To this end, the fourth edition of the LEDSenLAC report, which incorporates the progress of twenty-seven countries in the region on the implementation of the first generation of NDCs and on the content and characteristics of the second generation of NDCs (presentation of new or updated NDCs), presents an analysis of the quality of progress and the integration of climate goals with broader national and sectoral planning frameworks. It is a useful document to support professionals, technicians and decision makers promoting climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The report can be found here
To integrate all the objectives of the LEDSenLAC 2022 report, a conceptual framework was established based on the methodological work of the previous report and redefined the grouping of components inspired by the NDC assessment approach of UNDP's Climate Promise initiative and the Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) framework of the NDC Partnership Platform. Similarly, the conceptual framework incorporates aspects of different dimensions of articulation that are considered important to implement the NDCs, picking up and redefining key aspects of the approach of the Thematic Study on Advances in Climate Action in Latin America: Nationally Determined Contributions to 2019 of Euroclima.
The report is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the EUROCLIMA program, through the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
The information contained in this report is also incorporated in the NDC LAC platform of the Euroclima initiative "Peer Dialogue to enhance the implementation of the NDCs of Latin America and the Caribbean", a virtual platform that allows visualizing information on the progress in the implementation and updating of the NDCs of the countries of the region.
The implementation experience.
The report was presented through an online event, which, after a brief presentation of the content and main findings of the report, included interventions by Ligia Castro, Director of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment of Panama and Sandra Briceño, Head of the Department of Climate Finance and Means of Implementation of the Climate Change Division of the Ministry of Environment of Chile, who presented the experiences and challenges in the implementation of NDCs in their respective countries. Both, highlighted the importance of monitoring the goals established in the national climate action and the challenges in measurement, identifying this type of tools as a key contribution for this purpose.
The event was followed by a panel discussion, with the participation of Raúl Delgado, Climate Change and NDC Investment Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, Jimy Ferrer, Economic Affairs Officer of the Economics of Climate Change Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the moderation of Paola Vasconi, GIZ Senior Regional Advisor for Climate Governance. In this space were highlighted the progress of national commitments to address the climate and ecological crisis.
The event is available here