The nationally determined contributions of nations that have ratified the Paris Agreement are now available online via a newly launched portal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Currently, the NDCs of 17 nations can be found on the portal: Barbados, Belize, Fiji, Grenada, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Seychelles, Somalia, and Tuvalu.
In the run-up to the December negotiations that led to the adoption of the agreement, nations submitted intended nationally determined contributions. Depending on domestic policy, governments have since been working to finalize these contributions, dropping the “intended.” The Paris Agreement is a legally binding framework under which nations work to achieve their non-legally-binding NDCs.
These NDCs are only the first round, as the Paris Agreement includes a “ratcheting” mechanism that requires participating countries to revisit their NDCs every five years and increase their ambition.
