Land Use in NDCs: A Guide to High Ambition
About the Update
This guide is designed to support countries and those working together to support the NDC processes at both the international and national levels.
It emphasizes that this next round of NDCs should focus more on rights based approaches to protecting primary forests and intact ecosystems, building resilient food systems, and addressing climate and biodiversity needs together.
It builds on findings in the Land Gap Report, the UNFCCC Global Stocktake, and the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework, to identify priority areas of implementation and activities to avoid, as well as principles for effective action.
Key Messages
The UNFCCC Paris Agreement calls for increased ambition in each new round of NDCs. Here we suggest high-ambition land-sector activities to include in new NDCs. The recommendations build from findings in the Land Gap Report, the UNFCCC Global Stocktake, and the new Global Biodiversity Framework developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
