DECODIFICACIÓN DE LAS CONTRIBUCIONES PREVISTAS DETERMINADAS A NIVEL NACIONAL

This guide by the World Resources Institute (WRI) provides a framework for understanding and evaluating Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which are public descriptions of planned climate actions from countries starting in 2020. The document outlines the characteristics of a robust INDC and provides six essential questions to assess their clarity, scientific alignment, fairness, ambition, viability, and transparency.

• Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) are public declarations of a country's planned actions to address climate change from 2020 onwards, serving as critical inputs for the COP21 agreement in Paris.
• A robust INDC must be fair, ambitious, transparent, and viable, while remaining consistent with scientific requirements to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and aligned with national priorities.
• Mitigation commitments in INDCs can be presented as 'actions' (specific measures like policies or projects) or 'direct effects' (specific results such as GHG emission reductions or renewable energy increases). Quantified direct effects are preferred as they improve credibility, comparability, and the estimation of global aggregate impacts.
• To align with scientific findings and the UNFCCC goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius, global emissions must peak by 2020 and net GHG emissions must be eliminated in the long term.
• Fairness and ambition in an INDC are determined by a country's capacity to take maximum possible action, considering its emission responsibilities (historical, current, or per capita), economic capacity (such as GDP per capita), and vulnerability to climate impacts.
• For an INDC to be viable and effective, it must be integrated with national priorities, laws, and institutional frameworks rather than existing in isolation, and it requires high-level political commitment.
• Transparency in INDCs is essential for determining the collective global impact on temperature and requires detailed information on methodologies, assumptions, scope (sectors, gases, geography), and reference years.

APA

World Resources Institute (2015). DECODIFICACIÓN DE LAS CONTRIBUCIONES PREVISTAS DETERMINADAS A NIVEL NACIONAL. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/Decoding_INDCs_Spanish.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. DECODIFICACIÓN DE LAS CONTRIBUCIONES PREVISTAS DETERMINADAS A NIVEL NACIONAL. 2015. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/Decoding_INDCs_Spanish.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2015decodificacin, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{DECODIFICACIÓN DE LAS CONTRIBUCIONES PREVISTAS DETERMINADAS A NIVEL NACIONAL}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2015}, month = jul, url = {https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/Decoding_INDCs_Spanish.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }