Interim National Determined Contribution 2020.

This document presents Bangladesh's interim NDC update which will be further updated following the UNFCCC guidelines under the Paris Agreement. The interim NDC aims to further strengthen mitigation actions that Bangladesh may take to tackle its growing emissions and to play its role in global efforts to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees or preferably 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Bangladesh submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to UNFCCC on 25 September 2015 with an ambitious GHG reduction target of 15% from a Business as Usual (BAU) level by 2030. Of this 5% reduction was targeted as unconditional and 10% was as conditional, i.e. contingent upon technical and financial support from the global community. This updated NDC calls for a number of mitigation actions that will help limit the country’s GHG emissions and play a key role in realizing the move to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy and to becoming a middle-income country whilst ensuring that it will not cross the average per capita emissions of the developing countries. Planned Actions include: 1. The government has set a target of generating 1700 MW from Utility scale solar plants and 250 MW from solar home system by 2030; 2. major cities' solid waste will be reduced by converting it to energy, and around 100 municipalities will establish bio-gas plant to reduce emission. As mentioned in this document, mitigation and adaptation often coexist together and quite a few adaptation actions do have mitigation co-benefits. A set of relevant national plans and policies have already been prepared to assist the activities related to climate change actions. The Forest Investment Plan (FIP, 2017-2022) has been developed to identify the future investment opportunities to increase the forest cover, reducing the deforestation and forest degradation, improving the livelihoods of the forest dependent people through the implementation of participatory/social forestry. The Government has recently adopted the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, a comprehensive 100-year strategic plan aimed at attenuation of gradual sustainable development through adaptive delta management process. Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 reaffirms Bangladesh’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from key sectors through efforts like promoting improved rice parboiling system to reduce carbon emissions and ensure energy efficiency, research on suitability of various tree species for their carbon-locking properties for designing various forestry programs as well as promoting low carbon development in waste sector. The government is expecting to enhance both unconditional and conditional contribution in the updated NDC. The exact proportions of the both conditional and unconditional will depend on three inviolate principles of maintaining a minimum 8% rate of growth, complete eradication of poverty by 2030, and food and nutrition security for all citizens.