Ghana Updated Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement (2020 - 2030)

Ghana's Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for 2020-2030 outlines a strategy to transition to a climate-resilient, low-carbon economy through 47 adaptation and mitigation programmes across 19 policy areas. The plan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 64 MtCO2e by 2030, create over one million green jobs, and benefit approximately 38 million people.

• Ghana aims to achieve absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions of 64 MtCO2e by 2030. This target is split between nine unconditional measures, expected to reduce emissions by 24.6 MtCO2e, and 25 conditional measures that could achieve an additional 39.4 MtCO2e provided international and private sector financial support is available.
• The NDC includes 47 total programmes of action: 13 for adaptation and 34 for mitigation. These are derived from 19 policy actions across 10 priority areas. The adaptation measures are further divided into seven unconditional and six conditional programmes.
• Implementation of the NDC is expected to yield significant socio-economic and health benefits by 2030, including the creation of over one million decent green jobs, the avoidance of at least 2,900 premature deaths annually due to improved air quality, and benefits for nearly 38 million people, primarily women and youth.
• Ghana estimates the total investment required to implement the 47 NDC measures between 2020 and 2030 to be between US$ 9.3 billion and US$ 15.5 billion. Of this, US$ 3.9 billion is needed for the 16 unconditional programmes, while US$ 5.4 billion for the 31 conditional programmes must be mobilised from public, international, and private sources, including carbon markets.
• The NDC targets a broad scope of the economy, covering an average of 88% of GHG sources and removals. The sectors included are Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), Land use land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), and Waste. Agriculture and certain extractive and manufacturing industries are excluded due to vulnerabilities in food production, livelihood dependencies, and data management challenges.
• Ghana intends to utilize voluntary cooperation under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement to achieve up to 55% of its conditional absolute emission reductions, which equates to approximately 24 million tonnes of emission reductions.

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Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Ghana Updated Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement (2020 - 2030). https://leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5209.pdf

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021ghana, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Ghana Updated Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement (2020 - 2030)}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = sep, url = {https://leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5209.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }