Supporting ambitious Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: lessons learned from developing countries.
This working paper summarises some of the key learning points that have emerged from working with nine developing countries as they prepare their INDCs for submission to the UNFCCC by October 2015. The authors conducted a series of interviews with people preparing INDCs in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Uganda.
The paper sets out the five principal conclusions that emerge from these interviews:
- Consider INDCs as statements of political ambition, both domestically and internationally.
- Have a clear vision for the structure and content from the outset.
- Build on existing policies, with targeted use of new analysis to fill knowledge gaps.
- Build broad-based support across economic sectors through innovative approaches to consultation.
- Make plans for effective implementation now, and consider how international support, finance and other mechanisms may adjust ambitions after 2015.