Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution

Zimbabwe's 2021 Revised NDC increases its conditional GHG emission reduction target to 40% per capita by 2030 (up from 33%) and expands its scope to cover all IPCC sectors: Energy, IPPU, Waste, and AFOLU. The report emphasizes Zimbabwe's high vulnerability to climate change, particularly in its rainfed agriculture sector, and outlines a mitigation cost of US$4,834.47 million. It introduces the National Climate Change Fund and a National Climate Finance Facility to mobilize public and private investment.

• Zimbabwe has increased its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target from 33% in its first NDC to a 40% reduction in economy-wide GHG emissions per capita compared to the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario by 2030. This target is conditional on international support.
• The scope of the revised NDC has expanded from covering only the energy sector to an economy-wide approach including all Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sectors: Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), Waste, and Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU).
• Zimbabwe is identified as one of the world's 50 most vulnerable countries according to the ND-GAIN Index, with a high reliance on rainfed agriculture which employs 70% of the population directly or indirectly.
• The document identifies significant climate-related risks to human capital, including a historical correlation between drought/floods and cholera outbreaks. Between 1990 and 2010, a cholera outbreak occurred in one of every three droughts and one of every 15 floods.
• Zimbabwe faces substantial transnational climate risks, rated 8 out of 10 on the Transnational Climate Impacts Index. These include dependency on shared river basins, reliance on remittances (which accounted for 8% of GDP in 2019), and dependency on imported cereals.
• The estimated cost for implementing the mitigation measures identified in the revised NDC is US$4,834.47 million.
• To manage climate finance, the government is establishing the National Climate Change Fund (NCCF) and a National Climate Finance Facility (CFF) through the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ). The CFF is co-funded by climate-related taxes.
• The revised NDC includes a broader range of pollutants in its analysis, adding Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to the previous list of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, as well as analyzing short-lived climate pollutants like Black Carbon.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5217.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution. 2021. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5217.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021zimbabwe, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, url = {https://cdn.leap.sei.org/pubattachments/5217.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }