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nationally determined contribution (NDC)

Meaning in environment & climate, with examples

nounCommon term

In environment & climate, nationally determined contribution (NDC) means: A country's national climate plan under the Paris Agreement, setting out its targets for cutting emissions and its actions for adapting to climate change.

In Turkish: ulusal katkı beyanı, ulusal olarak belirlenmiş katkı

How it is used

Usually called by its abbreviation, NDC; the plural is NDCs. Countries submit, update or strengthen their NDCs every five years. Targets may be absolute cuts from a base year or reductions compared with a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario.

Example sentences

  1. The country's new nationally determined contribution sets a stronger emissions target for 2035.

  2. Every nationally determined contribution is published in the UN's online NDC registry.

Common collocations

  • submit an NDC
  • updated NDC
  • NDC target
  • NDC implementation
  • Paris AgreementThe international climate treaty adopted in 2015 under the UN climate convention, in which countries agreed to keep global warming well below 2°C and to try to limit it to 1.5°C.
  • COPShort for Conference of the Parties: the yearly UN climate summit where the countries that signed the UN climate convention negotiate and review global climate action.
  • net zeroA state in which the greenhouse gases a country or company still emits, after deep emission cuts, are balanced by the same amount being removed from the atmosphere.
  • baselineThe starting conditions or measurements against which later changes are compared, such as the state of the environment before a project or a company's emissions in a base year.

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