What we need from the next NDCs – Insights from the latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report and UNFCCC NDC Synthesis Report

Date: 18 November 2024

Time: 13:00-14:15 AZT

Location: SPE 5-Nasimi, Amphitheatre / Zone B 188, Global Climate Action space Baku, Azerbaijan 

This is a UNEP side-event of the UNFCCC COP29.

Organizer: UNEP

Broadcast link.

Description: This joint UNFCCC and UNEP event features high-level opening remarks from the UNEP Executive Director and the UNFCCC Executive Secretary and a presentation of the key findings of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024. This will be followed by a panel discussion on what we need from the next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and how we can speed up climate action and implementation this decade.

The event draws on two recent UNEP and UNFCCC reports that both aim to inform countries as they prepare their next NDCs:

• The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! – With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments: The 15th edition of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report provides an updated assessment of the gap between where we are heading in terms of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and where we need to be in 2030 and in 2035 to get on track towards the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This year’s report focuses on what we need from the next round of NDCs and provides an updated assessment of sectoral emission reduction potentials.
• The UNFCCC 2024 NDC synthesis report summarises information from the 168 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 195 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the registry of nationally determined contributions as at 9 September 2024. The report provides a comprehensive picture of global climate action today, and a synthesis of the global response to climate change on all aspects of the Paris Agreement.