Nepal’s NDC on climate change

Nepal’s nationally determined contribution focuses more on adaptation than mitigation.

The last three decades of the international climate regime have shown positive accomplishments. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the goals of mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change, the Kyoto Protocol with legally binding emissions targets for developed countries, the Paris Agreement with a temperature threshold of 2 degrees Celsius (and pursue best efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius), and establishment of the net-zero target are three key milestones of past 30 years of climate change negotiation. However, the current pace of progress is not enough to achieve the ambitious target of 1.5 degrees Celsius set out in the Paris Agreement.