NDCs: Instruments promoting national development agendas in SIDS

The paper examines seven small island developing states to determine if their NDCs align with national development plans. It finds that while NDC actions generally relate to development themes, the sectors identified as climate priorities are too narrow and exclude key development areas such as governance, health, and education, thereby missing opportunities for policy coherence and resilience.

• An analysis of seven small island developing states reveals that while NDC actions generally align with themes in national development plans, the sectors designated as climate priorities are narrow and do not match the broader scope of national development agendas.
• Key sectors emphasized in SIDS development plans—including governance and institutions, economic management, education, health, transport, and land use planning—are typically absent from NDCs, despite their importance for addressing the contextual conditions of community vulnerability.
• The narrow sectoral focus of NDCs may stem from normative or material biases regarding climate relevance, which limits the potential for policy coherence and the reinforcement of national development agendas.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). NDCs: Instruments promoting national development agendas in SIDS. https://www.sei.org/publications/ndcs-instruments-promoting-national-development-agendas-sids/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. NDCs: Instruments promoting national development agendas in SIDS. 2019. https://www.sei.org/publications/ndcs-instruments-promoting-national-development-agendas-sids/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019ndcs, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{NDCs: Instruments promoting national development agendas in SIDS}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = apr, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/ndcs-instruments-promoting-national-development-agendas-sids/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }