Urban content of NDCs

This report analyses the urban content found within Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of
194 countries under the Paris Agreement as submitted before 27 June 2023 to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC is an international treaty among countries to combat “dangerous human interference with the climate system.” To compliment this broader analysis, NDCs from 16 countries are explored and analyzed in more detail.
Prepared by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), the UNESCO Chair
on Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU.Resilience) and the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), the report expands on research conducted by the same core team
in 2022 and published in the UN-Habitat report Urban Climate Action – The Urban Content in the
NDCs: Global Review 2022, which analysed all NDCs submitted up to 19 June 2022. This report
includes 27 NDCs newly submitted or updated since 19 June 2022. The Country Profile research
was led by UNDP and UN-Habitat colleagues with in-country expertise.

The purpose of this study is to provide analysis and, potentially, guidance to policymakers
and practitioners working on climate change and, more specifically, on NDC development
and implementation at national and local level. This report aims to:
i. Facilitate a better understanding of the urban content of NDCs, as well as climate
policies and implementation gaps related to urban climate action;
ii. Highlight climate action challenges and opportunities in urban areas emerging from
the analysis of NDC content;
iii. Support countries to place cities at the centre of their climate ambition and NDCs to
ultimately achieve the Paris Agreement through the successful operationalization of
urban climate action; and
iv. Provide a unique set of climate data for policymakers and practitioners and an important
climate policy analysis tool.
This report is structured in three main parts:

• Global Analysis. The first section provides an up-to-date general overview and analysis
  of the urban content of the 194 NDCs submitted to the UNFCCC registry up to June 19,

This analysis focuses on urban mitigation challenges and responses associated
with climate change by sector, means of implementation and climate hazards.

• Country Briefs. Next, 194 Country Briefs provide a visual snapshot of the urban content
  of each country’s NDC, with an overview of mitigation and adaptation challenges and
  responses by sectors at the national and urban levels.
• Country Profiles. Lastly, 16 qualitative Country Profiles present each country’s climaterelated national policies, plans and strategies, a description of climate mitigation
  and adaptation challenges, mitigation and adaptation responses and a short list of
  policy recommendations. These country case studies can serve as good practices for
  knowledge sharing purposes.
  This analysis builds upon earlier efforts by the same core team to classify NDC urban content
  between 2016 and 2023.

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