NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water

This guide by the World Resources Institute provides a framework for integrating water considerations into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to improve climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

• The document outlines a six-step process for integrating water into NDCs: establishing institutional arrangements and partnerships, taking stock of progress, updating assessments of water adaptation and mitigation priorities, determining how to reflect the water cycle in climate planning, assessing costs, benefits, and cross-thematic interactions, and aligning NDCs with funding and finance processes.
• Effective water management is presented as a means to reduce emissions, enhance water security, and support carbon sequestration. Specific methods include managing the water-energy nexus, treating and recycling wastewater, and preserving forests and wetlands for water flow regulation and carbon sequestration.
• The guide asserts that explicit consideration of the water cycle is necessary to meet Paris Agreement commitments and that failing to adapt to climate change's impact on the water cycle will be costly and dangerous.

APA

World Resources Institute (2019). NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water. https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water

Chicago

World Resources Institute. NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water. 2019. https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2019ndc, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2019}, month = oct, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }