Papua New Guinea on Tuesday became the first country to submit a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) plan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to comply with the Paris climate change agreement. NDCs are public commitments laying out the actions each country will take under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise since pre-industrial times well below 2 degrees Celsius.
“PNG ‘s current economic development is seeing a growth in fuel use therefore a big effort will be to reduce fossil fuel emissions in the electricity generation sector by transitioning as far as possible to using renewable energy. The target in this respect will be 100% renewable energy by 2030, contingent on funding being made available,” the NDC says.
Nearly 200 countries submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDCs) to the UNFCCC prior to the December 2015 conference in Paris. The INDCs gave a rough idea of what countries could do at the national level to reduce greenhouse gasses. Once a national government approves the Paris Agreement, the INDCs then become NDCs, unless a country, having seen the actual agreement, decides to submit a new NDC.
The UNFCCC has launched a new website to collect the NDCs as they are submitted.
