Scaling Up Ambition: Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies to Achieve the Paris Agreement Goals

This research paper, produced by the World Resources Institute and UNDP for the G20 Climate and Sustainability Working Group, argues that Long-Term Strategies (LTSs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are synergistic tools essential for achieving Paris Agreement goals and fostering sustainable economic growth within G20 nations.

• Long-Term Strategies (LTSs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are mutually reinforcing tools that can share governance arrangements, stakeholder consultations, and modeling exercises to create transformative sectoral pathways.
• LTSs provide the long-term perspective necessary to guide current development trajectories and near-term decisions toward Paris Agreement goals, while NDC implementation ensures these near-term actions align with those long-term strategies and broader growth and inequality reduction objectives.
• Immediate transformation is required to reduce global emissions by 50% by 2030 to meet the 1.5°C target, a process that the document links to potential job creation, health benefits, and economic growth.
• The G20 is positioned to support non-G20 countries in the development of their LTSs and the enhancement and implementation of their NDCs.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Scaling Up Ambition: Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies to Achieve the Paris Agreement Goals. https://www.wri.org/research/scaling-ambition-leveraging-nationally-determined-contributions-and-long-term-strategies

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Scaling Up Ambition: Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies to Achieve the Paris Agreement Goals. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/scaling-ambition-leveraging-nationally-determined-contributions-and-long-term-strategies.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendscaling, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Scaling Up Ambition: Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies to Achieve the Paris Agreement Goals}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/scaling-ambition-leveraging-nationally-determined-contributions-and-long-term-strategies}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }