Liberia’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0)

Liberia's Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0), submitted in September 2025, outlines a revised climate action plan aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050. The document updates the national base year for emissions from 2015 to 2022, resulting in a significant increase in absolute emission reduction targets. It integrates climate resilience across multiple sectors—including energy, agriculture, forestry, transport, and waste—and aligns with the national ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID). The plan emphasizes gender-responsive and socially inclusive actions, specifically targeting the needs of women, youth, and children.

• Liberia has set a long-term goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
• The country reaffirms a target to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 64% below business-as-usual (BAU) levels by 2035. This is split into an unconditional reduction of 5,551 GgCO‚e (10%) and a conditional reduction of 29,974 GgCO‚e (54%) contingent on international support.
• Due to a change in the base year from 2015 to 2022, the absolute emission reduction target has increased fourfold. Emissions in the 2015 base year were 5,695 GgCO‚e, whereas the 2022 inventory estimated emissions at 12,471 GgCO‚e.
• Sectoral mitigation targets for 2035 include a 48.5% reduction in Energy, 45% in Forestry, 45% in Waste, 40% in Agriculture, and 15% in Transport.
• Energy sector targets include increasing the share of on-grid renewable energy to at least 75% by installing 150 MW of new renewable energy plants and providing clean cooking solutions to 200,000 households.
• Forestry targets aim to reduce the national deforestation rate by 10% by 2035 and establish at least four new protected areas covering 200,000 hectares by 2029.
• Transport targets include introducing at least 2,000 electric small 3-wheelers (kekehs) and 2,300 electric 2-wheelers by 2029, and transitioning 20% of the National Transit Authority bus fleet to cleaner power by 2035.
• Agriculture targets include reducing chemical fertilizer use by 60% by 2035 and promoting low-emissions rice cultivation by reducing field residue burning by 30% by 2028.
• Waste management targets include recovering at least 70% of landfill gas from the Whein Town and Cheesemanburg sites and developing 50 small-scale composting stations by 2035.
• Adaptation priorities include implementing green-grey infrastructure along 60% of the vulnerable coastline by 2035 and ensuring 40% of health facilities and schools have climate-resilient WASH by 2035.
• Cross-cutting targets for youth and children include creating 5,000 new green jobs by 2035, mainstreaming climate change into 100% of primary and secondary school curricula by 2035, and establishing a shock-responsive cash transfer for 100,000 children by 2027.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Liberia’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0). https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5132.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Liberia’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0). 2025. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5132.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025liberias, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Liberia’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0)}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = sep, url = {https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5132.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }