COP29 Official Side Event: Ensuring NDC Success: Connecting Global Renewable Energy Targets with Regional and National Ambitions

Introduction

Global climate commitments aim to triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. These targets must be translated into actionable steps at the national level through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which serve as a framework for countries to outline their climate action. NDCs are inherently multistakeholder as they must involve multiple stakeholders across government, private sector, civil society, and academia for policy alignment and integrated planning. This multistakeholder process is essential to meeting national targets, fostering societal support, and aligning with the global climate agenda.

However, effective NDC implementation requires long-term planning and coordination between global targets, national actions, and regional strategies. This involves aligning NDCs with broader regional and market-driven approaches for renewables integration, ensuring that planning processes are coherent and support economic resilience. Regional collaboration is also critical in achieving coherence between countries’ individual climate and energy goals, ensuring that technical, financial, and policy pathways are consistent across borders and scaling up the impact of NDCs.

This session will explore how global renewable energy and energy efficiency targets can be effectively connected to the NDC process and highlight the importance of regional collaboration. It will also dive into the opportunities and challenges of integrating renewable energy across different countries and regions, emphasising the importance of coordinated long-term planning, infrastructure, and policy alignment.

The discussion will focus on how NDCs as a multistakeholder process can drive increased ambition, secure societal support for renewables, and address technical and policy challenges. The session will draw on experiences from different regions to illustrate the opportunities they identify to support country targets and drive economy-wide transitions and common challenges, such as financing, grid integration, and policy alignment.