Developing and implementing NDC roadmaps and financing strategies: Lessons learned from the NDC Support Programme (2017-2025)

The Paris Agreement emphasizes the need to align climate action with broader socio-economic goals to ensure sustainable, low-carbon and climate-resilient development pathways. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as national climate pledges and action plans, play a vital role in aligning countries’ climate and growth goals to ensure they support low-carbon development pathways. As countries prepare to submit their next round of NDCs for the 2025 submission cycle, there is a renewed focus on enhancing ambition, strengthening implementation and aligning financing strategies with long-term climate goals.

NDC roadmaps and financing strategies are crucial for operationalizing country commitments. While roadmaps provide a structured framework to guide action, financing strategies address resource mobilization and allocation to ensure implementation. Together, they serve as essential tools for translating climate commitments under the Paris Agreement into actionable, measurable plans that align with national development priorities and address critical governance, financing and capacity challenges.

This document examines lessons learned and good practices from the development and implementation of NDC roadmaps and NDC financing strategies in eight countries supported under the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) NDC Support Programme (NDC SP): Argentina, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru and Tunisia.