NDCs One Year On

The report assesses G20 countries' efforts to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, noting that while all have taken concrete actions, progress and ambition vary. Key highlights include India's aggressive solar targets, China's integration of environmental stewardship into its 13th Five-Year Plan, and Indonesia's peatland restoration efforts. However, challenges remain, such as Turkey's planned expansion of coal power and Saudi Arabia's lack of a formal 2030 GHG target.

• All G20 countries have implemented concrete actions to achieve their NDCs, though there is significant variation in their levels of progress and ambition.
• India has set highly ambitious renewable energy goals, including a target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, with a specific focus on solar power.
• China's 13th Five-Year Plan integrates environmental stewardship and sets a target to reduce carbon intensity by 18 percent below 2015 levels by 2020, which would exceed its original target relative to 2005 levels.
• Indonesia has focused on forest protection and peatland restoration, establishing the Peat Restoration Agency to restore 2 million hectares of peatland between 2016 and 2020.
• Brazil is the first major developing country to commit to an absolute reduction of emissions from a base year, aiming for a 37 percent reduction by 2025 and 43 percent by 2030 relative to 2005 levels.
• Turkey's climate strategy is contradictory; while it intends to increase renewable investments, it plans to double its coal power capacity over four years, potentially quintupling its number of coal-fired plants.
• Saudi Arabia is the only G20 member that has not established a greenhouse gas target for 2030, and it has significantly reduced its original solar power targets.
• South Africa has become a leader in African renewable energy, with investments exceeding R194 billion since 2011, and plans to introduce a carbon tax of R120/tCO2e in January 2017.
• The European Union plans to allocate up to 20 percent of its 2014-2020 budget to climate change action, potentially totaling €180 billion.
• Canada has introduced a Low-Carbon Economy Trust of CA$2 billion to support provincial and territorial emissions-reduction projects and aims for all provinces to have carbon pricing by 2018.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). NDCs One Year On. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/NDCs_One_Year_On.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. NDCs One Year On. n.d. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/NDCs_One_Year_On.pdf.

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@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendndcs, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{NDCs One Year On}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/NDCs_One_Year_On.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }