DDP BIICS – Advancing Deep Decarbonization Pathways in Emerging economies

Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa are all committed to meeting the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Their domestic mitigation efforts focus on implementing their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC); under the Agreement, these contributions need to be strengthened over time.

However, three main challenges are encountered in the implementation and review of mitigation targets and policies and processes:

• The lack of tools to define transformational long-term strategies for complex sectors such as transport, industry, or agriculture/land-use, which are traditionally poorly represented in existing long-term strategies or policy plans.
• The need to link and support the domestic process of policy development in key sectors, and to ensure that it is consistent with the long-term transformation required by these sectors to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
• The need to have an enhanced societal dialogue to support ambitious climate policy development through empowerment and coordination of national stakeholders.

Long-term low GHG emission development strategies are a crucial tool to inform priority short-term actions with the best transformative impact, both at the country-scale and through international cooperation. Developing these strategies allows actors of the political economy to be engaged in a comprehensive dialogue about the transformation, thereby increasing the mitigation capacity at the national level. If they are connected to international processes, such as stocktake and revision cycles, developing long-term low GHG emission development strategies can also boost international mitigation capacity.