Supercharging national climate plans

Project Drawdown analyzed the NDCs of eight African countries—Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda—to identify synergies between climate mitigation and socioeconomic development. While all eight countries acknowledge poverty and gender mainstreaming, only Congo, Malawi, and Rwanda explicitly link climate solutions to specific human well-being dimensions. The analysis identifies 14 frequently cited solutions, such as Clean Cooking and Distributed Solar Photovoltaics, but notes the omission of other high-impact 'double-duty' solutions like Reduced Food Waste and Family Planning and Education. The report argues for recognizing Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) actions as both mitigation and adaptation tools and diversifying decentralized renewable energy to combat energy poverty in rural communities.

• All eight analyzed NDCs acknowledge poverty as a major issue and include gender mainstreaming, but only Congo, Malawi, and Rwanda explicitly detail how climate solutions benefit specific dimensions of human well-being.
• Fourteen climate solutions with human well-being co-benefits are frequently cited across the NDCs, including Clean Cooking, Biogas for Cooking, Distributed Solar Photovoltaics, Microgrids, Forest Protection, and Tropical Forest Restoration.
• There is a significant opportunity to reduce emissions and improve food security by adding 'Reduced Food Waste' to NDCs, as unintentional post-harvest food loss in Africa is 14 percent.
• Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) actions are primarily listed as adaptation strategies, but the report argues they should be recognized as dual mitigation-adaptation solutions to cost-effectively meet Paris Agreement goals.
• While all eight countries include Distributed Solar Photovoltaics and Microgrids, other decentralized renewables like Geothermal Power, Small Hydropower, and Micro Wind Turbines are largely omitted, despite high geothermal potential in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

APA

Project Drawdown (2024). Supercharging national climate plans. https://drawdown.org/news/supercharging-national-climate-plans

Chicago

Project Drawdown. Supercharging national climate plans. 2024. https://drawdown.org/news/supercharging-national-climate-plans.

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BibTeX

@techreport{projectdrawdown2024supercharging, author = {{Project Drawdown}}, title = {{Supercharging national climate plans}}, institution = {Project Drawdown}, year = {2024}, month = aug, url = {https://drawdown.org/news/supercharging-national-climate-plans}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }