West Africa and the global climate agenda
COP27 will return to Africa for the first time since 2016 to follow up on promises
made in Glasgow in 2021 to limit global temperatures to well below 2°C by the end
of the century as committed under the Paris Agreement. Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) enable each country to pursue a tailored approach under the Paris Agreement,
with countries setting their own mitigation and adaptation targets with the aim of
increasing ambition with each subsequent submission. This report analyses the NDCs
of 17 countries in West Africa on some of the pressing issues to be discussed at COP27,
namely the ambition of targets in NDCs, the financing needs related to NDCs and their
implementation. The objective of this report is two-fold: to inform COP participants
where the region stands on these matters, and to identify opportunities for the region
in updating NDCs.
Available from November 09, 2022
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