Seizing the urban opportunity

The world remains off track to meet both the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the impacts of climate change intensify, the urgency to close the ambition and implementation gaps grows. It is now widely acknowledged that achieving climate and sustainable development outcomes requires integrated, whole of government and whole of society approaches. This means aligning efforts across ministries and levels of government national, regional, and local while
also engaging a broad range of non-state actors, including the private sector, civil society, academia,
indigenous peoples, and youth. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) play a central
role in this effort – not only as high-level political commitments under the Paris Agreement but also
as strategic vehicles to translate ambition into concrete, actionable national policy frameworks.
In the context of this guide, strengthened NDCs can accelerate local development goals including
access to housing, land and urban basic services.
As countries prepare to submit their third-round Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
in 2025, attention is turning toward the national review processes that will determine how climate
commitments are translated into effective action. These processes offer a critical opportunity to
recalibrate ambition, align policy instruments, and ensure institutional readiness for implementation.
Within this context, urban climate action and the strategic inclusion of cities in NDC formulation and
operationalization emerges as a key lever for both raising ambition and strengthening implementation
outcomes.

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