NDC x SDG Insights leverages data, AI, and systems analysis to identify acceleration pathways and uncover systemic barriers to climate action, positioning climate as a key driver of SDG achievement and informing the NDC 3.0 process.
Unlocking Human Development
Through Climate Action
To date, no nation has successfully achieved human development while remaining within planetary boundaries.
The NDC x SDG Insights Reports are the latest tools made available through the SDG Push initiative, explicitly built to answer the increasingly urgent need to integrate climate action with the broader development agenda.
The NDC x SDG approach is centered around the identification of the interlinkages and mechanisms through which priority climate activities could accelerate the most important national development goals, thus creating the narrative required to bring together broad coalitions across government.
Emerging Insights from Five Pilots
We piloted NDC x SDG Insights in five countries - Cambodia, El Salvador, Liberia, Uzbekistan, and Tunisia - representing each of UNDP’s five programmatic regions.
These pilots were instrumental in refining the methodology, aligning the report structure with policymakers’ needs and demonstrating the value of aligning the national climate ambition with the countries’ broader development priorities.
What We’re Discovering
POLICY COHERENCE
Assessing alignment between NDCs and national development plans, highlighting opportunities to strengthen both for greater policy consistency and investment potential
CLIMATE-DEVELOPMENT ACCELERATORS
Identifying specific climate actions with notable SDG co-benefits, offering a development-based rationale for enhanced climate ambition
UNLOCKING FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS
Developing an integrated space to assess the expected costs of achieving key development and climate targets and charted concrete public and private financing opportunities to assist countries navigate resource mobilization challenges
Expansion to 20 Countries
The initiative is now expanding to an additional 15 countries over 2025, bringing the total number of participating countries to 20.