Gender equality inclimate action

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been a leader in climate action, working across more than 140 countries implementing a portfolio of over US$2.3 billion in grant financing that benefits 37 million people. Committed to fostering ambitious progress towards resilient, low-carbon development, UNDP supports the implementation of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement by working with countries to achieve their national climate pledges, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Through NDCs, countries are raising their ambition by setting bold targets to reduce emissions from greenhouse gases (GHGs) while also strengthening their adaptation goals to increase resiliency to climate change impacts. UNDP’s Climate Promise supports developing countries to achieve their NDC priorities and deliver the Paris Agreement goals.

As one of UNDP’s flagship programmes contributing to the Climate Promise, the NDC Support programme (NDC SP) launched in 2017 and supported over 47 programme countries and territories to implement their NDCs and drive transformational change by scaling up climate investments. The NDC SP’s resources exceeded $74.7 million, with contributions aimed to enhance the capacity of governments to deliver on their climate commitments. The programme focused on six result areas that were underpinned by peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and advocacy efforts:

1. Leadership strengthened and championed to promote ambitious climate change vision;
2. Integrated governance enhanced to deliver NDC outcomes;
3. Evidence-based design and planning of mitigation actions delivered;
4. Capacities developed to design climate-friendly investment opportunities, address investor risk, and
   blend and catalyze climate finance;
5. Enabling environment enhanced for private sector engagement; and
6. Alignment between COVID-19 recovery efforts and NDC enhancement and implementation processes strengthened.

Notably, the NDC SP builds on earlier UNDP initiatives, such as the Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB)
Programme, and continues to support countries in fulfilling their Paris Agreement commitments. The results achieved under the NDC SP are part of an ongoing effort that integrates previous and current initiatives, demonstrating the continuity and evolution of UNDP’s support for climate action. As such, the NDC SP’s results, in many cases, are being sustained and scaled up through the Climate Promise portfolio, as well as other joint funding arrangements and other complementary UNDP programming.

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