NDC KEY PARAMETERS

The objective of Zambia’s NDC is to reduce total emissions by 38,000 GgCO2eq by implementing three programs driven by Zambia’s Climate Response Strategy in the areas of sustainable forest management, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Unconditional NDC: 25% emission reduction below business-as-usual (BAU) by 2030

Conditional NDC: 47% emission reduction below BAU by 2030  

Mitigation Sectors
Energy, forestry, agriculture, water, town and country planning, sanitation and transport

Adaptation Sectors
Agriculture, water, forestry, energy, wildlife, infrastructure and health

 

ANTICIPATED UPDATES FOR NDC2

The updated NDC will increase ambition by adding more sectors such as transport, industrial waste and coal production/use. It will also strengthen the adaptation component as well as the monitoring system and enhanced transparency.

The NDC Support Programme is directly contributing by:

• Enhancing the role of women in NDC processes via awareness raising, technical training and gender mainstreaming;
• Aligning NDC targets to key sectoral strategies and plans;
• Conducting an NDC emissions target stocktaking;
• Improving NDC data structures by conducting greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories in three new sectors, and conducting a gender audit of the GHG management system;
• Developing adaptation targets in the NDC, exploring NDC opportunities for nature-based solutions (NBS) and conducting a vulnerability assessment and risk projection; and
• Establishing an NDC investment plan.

The work contributes to UNDP’s broader corporate initiative, the Climate Promise, which supports over 110 countries to submit enhanced NDCs. Through the Climate Promise, UNDP will support Zambia to consolidate new NDC aspects into the revised NDC document, mainstream youth and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-related actions into the NDC, and support establishment of the national monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system via capacity building.